From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 17 07:20:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA28687 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:20:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA28677; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:20:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA32054; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:20:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:20:16 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mike Pritchard , muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff), hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 In-Reply-To: <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com> References: <199612162023.MAA29815@freefall.freebsd.org> <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < 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