Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:7053 comp.sources.bugs:2966 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!targon!gert From: gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: v20i064: compress - Compress 4.1, Part01/02 Message-ID: <1807@targon.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 91 14:44:57 GMT Article-I.D.: targon.1807 References: <1991Jun26.221030.23987@motcad.portal.com> Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationsystems BV.,SWZ, Vianen, the Netherlands. Lines: 69 In article <1991Jun26.221030.23987> jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes: >In article Dave Mack writes: >>Posting-number: Volume 20, Issue 64 >>Archive-name: compress/part01 >> >>This is Compress, Version 4.1. This submission consists of two parts. > >This new version of compress seems to have the old problem with zcat >somtimes deleting the compressed file when interrupted. I thought >this bug was fixed long ago. >-- >J.T. Conklin jtc@motcad.portal.com, ...!portal!motcad!jtc I'm confused. We have had compress 4.2 for some four years or so and now someone comes up with a new 4.1 (based on 4.0). Could someone shed a bit of light on this (Chip Salzenberg , Dave Mack ?) please ? partly diff of compress.c versions 4.1 (newly) and 4.2 (from 1987) enclosed ........................................ *** compress.c Sun May 26 18:09:31 1991 --- compress42.c Thu Jun 04 16:32:08 1987 [ Many other differences deleted] *************** *** 139,147 **** * Joe Orost (decvax!vax135!petsd!joe) ! * Dave Mack (csu@alembic.acs.com) ! * ! * Revision 4.1 91/05/26 csu@alembic.acs.com ! * Modified to recursively compress directories ('r' flag). As a side ! * effect, compress will no longer attempt to compress things that ! * aren't "regular" files. See Changes. * * Revision 4.0 85/07/30 12:50:00 joe --- 129,141 ---- * Joe Orost (decvax!vax135!petsd!joe) ! * Chip Salzenberg (gatech!usfvax2!ateng!chip) * + * $Header: compress.c,v 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip Release $ + * $Log: compress.c,v $ + * + * Revision 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip + * Add "oftrash" flag -- don't unlink output file if input file is gone!! + * + * Revision 4.1 87/05/07 16:32:00 chip + * Go ahead and compress linked files if `force' flag is on. + * * Revision 4.0 85/07/30 12:50:00 joe *************** *** 256,258 **** */ ! static char version_id[] = "compress.c 4.1"; --- 250,252 ---- */ ! static char rcs_ident[] = "$Header: compress.c,v 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip Release $"; [ Rest deleted ] ............................. (Or should I've done it the other way round ?:-} ) -- Gert Kanis, AP SWZ SWP +----------------------+ Siemens Nixdorf Information systems | I do not represent | P.O.box 29, 4130 EA Vianen, Netherlands. | anyone elses opinion.| E-mail: outside Europe: kanis.via@sni-usa.com +----------------------+ Europe: gert@targon.UUCP Alternative: kanis.via@sni.de