Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:20:16 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freebsd.org>, muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff), hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 Message-ID: <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com> References: <199612162023.MAA29815@freefall.freebsd.org> <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com>
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<<On Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:33:27 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> said: > Unless, of course somebody else would hand us the code nicely wrapped > and with a big red bow on it, ready to stick in src/contrib and > src/usr.bin/compress :-) Actually, I don't see any reason why, given the existence of this package, `compress' can't just be moved out to ports. gzip already does `uncompress' perfectly well (because LZW is only patented on the compression, not the decompression). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
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