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From: Werner Griessl <croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Subject: Re: wu-ftpd compress...
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 09:22:10 +0000 ()
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In-Reply-To: <199607042212.PAA29080@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Jul 4, 96 03:12:51 pm"
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> Greetings!
> 

<SNIP>

> I think you'll find compress is NOT built static (at least it wasn't
> in 2.1R).  You can use gzip (I believe) to give you compress's
> behaviour, though...
> 
> --don
> 

That's correct ! But you can make it static by hand with the -static switch
to cc
"cc -static -o compress objlist"
I did it so.

Werner