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From: tony@xios.UUCP (Keeper Of News)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Mods to pathalias to recognize compressed input files
Message-ID: <317@xios.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 12:27:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: xios.317
Posted: Wed Oct  1 12:27:22 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 07:07:03 EDT
References: <316@esl.UUCP>
Reply-To: tony@xios.UUCP (Keeper Of News)
Organization: Xios Systems Corp., Ottawa, Ont.
Lines: 34
Keywords: compress(1) pathalias(l)
Summary: 

Anyone who has tried mac@esl.UUCP's patch to pathalais has probably
noticed that you quickly run out of processses.  I find it hard to
believe that this patch has ever worked, unless on his system fclose
(actually freopen) knows that the file it is closing is a pipe and does
a wait() automagicly. 

Here is a fix, just add it near the beginning of yywrap at the end of
parse.y. 


	while (*Ifiles) {
		Lineno = 1;
+		if( Cfile != NULL &&
+			strcmp(Cfile + strlen(Cfile) - 2, ".Z") == 0) { 
+				/*
+				 * Ignore the case where it ends in .Z but is not compressed
+				 * This is the hight of paranoia, and is more effort than I wish
+				 * to exert tonight.
+				 */
+				pclose(stdin);
+				}
		if (freopen((Cfile = *Ifiles++), "r", stdin)){
			/* if compacted, undo .. */
			if (strcmp(Cfile + strlen(Cfile) - 2, ".Z") == 0) { 
				/* Check the magic number */

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