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From: cpetterb@glacier.sim.es.com (Cary Petterborg)
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Subject: Re: v20i064:  compress - Compress 4.1, Part01/02
Message-ID: <CPETTERB.91Jun27171309@mickey.glacier.sim.es.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:13:09 GMT
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In article <1807@targon.UUCP> gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) writes:

   In article <1991Jun26.221030.23987> jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:

>   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

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>   !  * 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!!
>   +  * 
>

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>
>   ! static char rcs_ident[] = "$Header: compress.c,v 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip Release $";

RCS versions may have absolutely nothing to do with the release of the
software, since individual components often have different RCS verions
numbers.  Why the RCS version numbers seemed to show that some changes
were removed is interesting however.

Cary
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