From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 17 08:15:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id IAA02677 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA02671; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0va29V-0003xuC; Tue, 17 Dec 96 08:13 PST Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.phk.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id RAA15883; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:17:51 +0100 (MET) To: Garrett Wollman cc: Mike Pritchard , muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff), hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:20:16 EST." <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 17:17:50 +0100 Message-ID: <15881.850839470@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman wri tes: >< >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.