paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer) (06/26/90)
In article <1990Jun21.165047.16071@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1990Jun20.114755.22316@unhtel.uucp> paul@unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer) writes: >>When my cnews was doing this, it was because the batches were not being >>uncompressed. Newsrun has "uncompress -d" in it, and my compress wanted ^ Yes, I meant to say "compress -d" here | ... >>"uncompress" or "compress -u"... > >More precisely, newsrun invokes "compress -d", which has been standard >since the very first distribution of compress, over five years ago. >Looking at old sources, I find no indication that there has ever been >a -u option in the standard distribution. We can't take responsibility >for bugs introduced by suppliers. Well, the offending version is dated "4.0 85/07/30...joe" and "-d" sets something called "delta mode". It looks like someone (not here) may have hacked an extra feature.... I did not mean to imply that compress should have worked that way, just that that was what happened to me; I do not know where the strange version came from, or if it was distributed widely. The compress that I then got from UUNET is dated 9/24/87, says that it is based on that of 85/07/30 and of course has no "delta mode" or "-u". >A note about this will go in our portability-problems document. It had >never occurred to us that anyone would be so stupid as to make incompatible >changes in the user interface of compress... I hope it was only a local anomaly.... -- Paul S. Sawyer uunet!unh!unhtel!paul paul@unhtel.UUCP UNH Telecommunications attmail!psawyer p_sawyer@UNHH.BITNET Durham, NH 03824-3523 VOX: +1 603 862 3262 FAX: +1 603 862 2030