From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Dec 17 11:29:35 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id LAA13118 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA13098 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:29:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA04840 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:28:53 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id UAA03524 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:28:27 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id UAA15233; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:18:38 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 20:18:37 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/146 References: <199612162023.MAA29815@freefall.freebsd.org> <14069.850772007@critter.tfs.com> <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2815 In-Reply-To: <9612171520.AA32054@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Dec 17, 1996 10:20:16 -0500 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Garrett Wollman: > 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). I've submitted a long time ago the following patch. Didn't heard anything at the time, maybe it is time to submit it again... Index: gnu/usr.bin/gzip/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /spare/FreeBSD-current/src/gnu/usr.bin/gzip/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -2 -r1.12 Makefile --- Makefile 1996/08/28 15:45:32 1.12 +++ Makefile 1996/08/30 20:23:33 @@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ MAN1= gzexe.1 gzip.1 zdiff.1 zforce.1 zmore.1 znew.1 zgrep.1 CFLAGS+=-DASMV -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DDIRENT=1 +MLINKS= gzip.1 gunzip.1 gzip.1 zcat.1 gzip.1 gzcat.1 gzip.1 uncompress.1 MLINKS= gzip.1 gunzip.1 gzip.1 zcat.1 gzip.1 gzcat.1 MLINKS+= zgrep.1 zfgrep.1 zgrep.1 zegrep.1 @@ -13,4 +14,5 @@ LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/gzcat LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/zcat +LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/gzip ${BINDIR}/uncompress LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/zgrep ${BINDIR}/zegrep LINKS+= ${BINDIR}/zgrep ${BINDIR}/zfgrep Index: usr.bin/compress/Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /spare/FreeBSD-current/src/usr.bin/compress/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -2 -r1.3 Makefile --- Makefile 1996/07/02 23:04:32 1.3 +++ Makefile 1996/07/11 20:09:47 @@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ PROG= compress SRCS= compress.c zopen.c -LINKS= ${BINDIR}/compress ${BINDIR}/uncompress +#LINKS= ${BINDIR}/compress ${BINDIR}/uncompress MLINKS= compress.1 uncompress.1 -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #31: Tue Dec 3 23:52:58 CET 1996