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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: compress 4.2.4 (pr#bin/146)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 14:22:40 +1000 (EST)
Cc: scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <23116.833235934@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 27, 96 03:25:34 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
 
> 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?).

Many UUCP-based newsfeeds still do :-(
 
	michael