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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 16:22:19 +0000 ()
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199607051410.HAA20523@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Jul 5, 96 07:10:22 am"
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> > > 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...
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Yes.  I also rebuilt compress as a static binary.  I was merely pointing
> this out as you (I believe) were having some problems getting compress
> to work under ftp?
> 
> --don
> 

Hi Don,

Still have problems with compress (.Z and tar.Z) !
Can you send me your /local/etc/ftp*-files or made them available for me
via ftp ?

Werner

P.S.: Next try: Is anybody out there running the newest stable and have
      compress working with wu-ftp ?