From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 27 15:48:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA27555 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:48:44 -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 PAA27545 for ; Mon, 27 May 1996 15:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id SAA26366; Mon, 27 May 1996 18:48:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:48:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compress 4.2.4 (pr#bin/146) In-Reply-To: <23116.833235934@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 27 May 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Do we want to upgrade this? remove compress (ln to gzip?)? > > gzip isn't compatible with compress, though gunzip handles > _uncompression_ of compressed files. If anyone still relies on the > "compress" format, they'd be screwed by such a change (does anyone?). > > Path of least resistance is probably just to upgrade it. I wouldn't > mind having a compress that was twice as fast for wu-ftpd alone. > Okay, I have the code here...can I get away with just creating a patch between 4.2.0 and 4.2.4, and applying that? Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org