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Re: gzip-1.3.11 feedback
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: gzip-1.3.11 feedback |
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Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:39:02 -0800 |
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Matthew Burgess <address@hidden> writes:
> The symlink
> to `compress' is put in simply because it seems odd that `uncompress' would
> be present but not its counterpart. Was there a specific reason that
> `compress' has been left out of the gzip package?
Yes, old patent restrictions. It's not correct to link 'gzip' to
'compress', since 'compress' is supposed to use a different (formerly
patented) algorithm. One of these days we may add support for
'compress' to 'gzip', but it's not there now.