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From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
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To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Re: bin/146
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* Synopsis: version of compress is kinda old and slow
* 
* State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
* State-Changed-By: mpp
* State-Changed-When: Sun Dec 15 16:11:35 PST 1996
* State-Changed-Why: 
* Stale problem report (nearly 2 years old).
* 
* Please re-file if you really want to see a newer version of compress
* supplied.

Until gzip is faster than compress, there is still a use
for compress.  ncompress-4.2.4 is faster than gzip.  Not
by much anymore, but still a bit faster.

-Dave