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From: mkg@whuxle.UUCP (Marsh Gosnell)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: extra newline in 2.10.2 compress output
Message-ID: <587@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 23:46:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: whuxle.587
Posted: Mon Sep 24 23:46:06 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:35:03 EDT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany
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compress.c insists on generating a newline to stderr even in quiet mode.
Here is a fix that eliminates the newline.  The change is necessary because
the System V release 2 cron will send the owner of the cron entry mail if
there is any output from the command.  No mail is sent if there is no output.
This provides a nifty mechanism for cron entries to be silent unless something
breaks (e.g., no output except if an error is detected).

Here is the results of 'diff ocompress.c compress.c':
339d338
< 		putc('\n', stderr);
490c489
<         fprintf( stderr, "Compression: %5.2f%%",
---
>         fprintf( stderr, "Compression: %5.2f%%\n",

Marsh Gosnell   ihnp4!whuxlk!mkg