Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:17:50 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> 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: <15881.850839470@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:20:16 EST." <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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In message <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman wri tes: ><<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). Last time this came up the result was "no", although I don't remember why... Was it because of ancient news feeds or something ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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