csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) (06/28/91)
The version of compress 4.1 posted to comp.sources.misc is a pre-release version and has a number of fairly serious bugs. I recommend not using it until I post a patch or two to bring it up to date. Unfortunately, the posted version of compress4.1 hasn't arrived at my site yet, so I don't have the posted version to make diffs against. If someone in the DC/MD/VA area could email me a copy of the posted code, I'd appreciate it. In addition, there appears to be another version of compress floating around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and more portable than the compress4.0 code on which compress4.1 is based. As far as I can tell, compress4.3 has never been posted to the net, but is available at several anonymous FTP sites. At some point in the near future, I will attempt to get in touch with the persons responsible for the 4.3 version to reconcile code changes and version numbers. Presumably, you can all expect a release of compress4.4 sometime this summer. In the meantime, please keep those patches, complaints and words of praise pouring in. -- Dave Mack csu@alembic.acs.com uunet!alembic!csu