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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/minigzip - Imported sources
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * MHO, it appears that gzip is built static even though it is installed 
 * in /usr/bin.  Any idea why this is?

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>> cvs log Makefile | less
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revision 1.6
date: 1994/06/15 19:16:58;  author: jkh;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
branches:  1.6.6;
Make gzip static by default.  This is needed because it's such a
frequent companion to tar.
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I guess what he meant was because it could be used to recover from the 
lib.tar.gz file lying somewhere.

Satoshi