Re: compress ?
Thanks everyone,
I didn't know it was there.
One of my packages uses it during 'make test'.
It will be easy to get around it.
However it could be argued that a unix system without 'compress'
is broken.
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 1998 at 01:01:09PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> >
> > I don't have a 'compress' command on my hamm . Is this normal ?
>
> If you don't have the `ncompress' package installed, then yes,
> it is normal.
>
> BTW: `ncompress' is only available in the non-free section
> (due to LZW patent issues), so it will not be available on Debian CDs.
>
> But... why do you need `compress'? `gzip' compress things
> much better, and it's free.
>
> --
> Juan Cespedes
>
G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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