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Re: Debian 1.2 breaks INN, UUCP



On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Bdale Garbee wrote:

bdale >The "compress" that was part of early Debian 1.1 releases was actually a link
bdale >to "gzip".  This was a bad thing to do, because it broke some applications that
bdale >expected a "compress" program to actually create "compress"'ed files as output,
bdale >namely the X build and some sites who did UUCP'ed news to neighbors who didn't
bdale >have gzip.

CNews needs compress too. Can I install such a symlink when installing
Cnews?

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