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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: New compress (Was: Re: Widespread bug in "compress" and GIF compressors)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.174710.19495@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <BzEzAM.3Gv.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Dec18.131051.12514@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:45:21 GMT
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- I discovered something unusual in the new compress this week. A user called
- and complained that his utility was no longer displaying his file. It turned
- out that the file in question was a symbolic link to another file. While
- SunOS's old zcat was decompressing it just fine, the newly compiled version
- of compress/zcat was indicating that the file in question was not a regular
- file.
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- Does anyone know where a version of the new compress which works with
- symbolically linked files could be located?
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