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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 1996 19:18:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de (Werner Griessl)
Cc:        dgy@rtd.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wu-ftpd compress...
Message-ID:  <199607051718.TAA15727@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199607051622.QAA03345@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> from Werner Griessl at "Jul 5, 96 04:22:19 pm"

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> > > > I think you'll find compress is NOT built static (at least it wasn't
> > > > in 2.1R).  You can use gzip (I believe) to give you compress's
> > > > behaviour, though...
> > >
> > > That's correct ! But you can make it static by hand with the -static switch
> > > to cc
> > > "cc -static -o compress objlist"
> > > I did it so.
> > 
> > Yes.  I also rebuilt compress as a static binary.  I was merely pointing
> > this out as you (I believe) were having some problems getting compress
> > to work under ftp?
> > 
> > --don
> > 
> 
> Hi Don,
> 
> Still have problems with compress (.Z and tar.Z) !
> Can you send me your /local/etc/ftp*-files or made them available for me
> via ftp ?

I tried that too (static binary). It looks like compress is getting executed
but the file I get (get README.Z for example) is always zero size.

> 
> Werner
> 
> P.S.: Next try: Is anybody out there running the newest stable and have
>       compress working with wu-ftp ?
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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