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From: wagner@utcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Compressing with less than 16 bits
Message-ID: <1987Jan13.210525.8947@utcs.uucp>
Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 21:05:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 13 21:05:25 1987
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In article <470@oscvax.UUCP> rico@oscvax.UUCP (Rico Mariani) writes:
>
>on your micro:
>		uncompress foo.Z
>

Actually, using the fish disk compress at least, I found that I had to 
say 
			compress -d foo 
to get the right results.  
In the UNIX setup, compress and uncompress are links to the same file,
and the program figures out what to do by which way it was called (it looks
in arg[0]). There aren't 3 copies on the fish disk, and anyways, I wouldn't
want to keep three copies of the same program around, so I use the -d flag
to get the right results.  As I recall, it wasn't documented, but I did find
it in the code (thank god for source).

>
>		-Rico
>-- 
>[NSA food: terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, CIA, secret, decode, foo]
>[CSIS food: supermailbox, tuna, fiberglass coffins, Mirabel, microfiche]

Cute.  Are we supposed to infer something about the levels of paranoia of
the two services?

Michael