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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:59:45 -0600
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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David Muir Sharnoff wrote:
> 
> * 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.
> 

Aren't there some kind of restrictions on the use of this
version of compress - like patent issues, it's GPL'd, or
some such?

Steve

> -Dave