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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,news.software.b
Subject: Yet ANOTHER case where compress gets destructive.
Message-ID: <5797@well.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 15:34:55 GMT
References: <1988Apr15.080701.13263@sq.uucp>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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If the disk you're doing the compress on happens to be full, compress will
happily and without warning produce a zero-length .Z file and remove your
original.
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Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
       "I delete letters like this all the time. I couldn't care less."