From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 27 14:15:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13521 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA13502 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 14:15:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id RAA04555 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 17:15:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 17:15:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: compress 4.2.4 (pr#bin/146) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... Do we want to upgrade this? remove compress (ln to gzip?)? or just close the PR and sweep it under the carpet? >Description: Several years ago, just a short while before gzip appeared, a much improved version of compress was distributed by the Free Software Foundation. Although this version was distributed by the FSF, it is not under the GPL. When I say "much improved", I mean that it is more than twice as fast. That makes it enough faster than gzip that in certain time-critical applications, like backups, you may be able to use compress and not be able to use gzip. I realize that the patent situation with compress is not so great, but if you're going to ship it at all, you might as well ship the best. The FSF stopped distributing compress when gzip appeared. I have no idea where the official site for this version is, but you can get a copy from ftp://ftp.idiom.com/pub/net-sources/ncompress-4.2.4.tar.gz Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org