Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:59:45 -0600 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> Cc: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 Message-ID: <32B4C931.794BDF32@hiwaay.net> References: <199612160141.RAA10917@idiom.com>
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David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > > * Synopsis: version of compress is kinda old and slow > * > * State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > * State-Changed-By: mpp > * State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 15 16:11:35 PST 1996 > * State-Changed-Why: > * Stale problem report (nearly 2 years old). > * > * Please re-file if you really want to see a newer version of compress > * supplied. > > Until gzip is faster than compress, there is still a use > for compress. ncompress-4.2.4 is faster than gzip. Not > by much anymore, but still a bit faster. > Aren't there some kind of restrictions on the use of this version of compress - like patent issues, it's GPL'd, or some such? Steve > -Dave
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