Geoffrey Lee wrote:

>>>>  
>>>>
>>>I've removed a bunch of months ago since:
>>>
>>>- it's not free software or it had patents problems
>>>
>>>- zcat can uncompress .Z files
>>>
>>OK... then anonftp and clips need to be adjusted to use zcat instead...
>>
>
>Or maybe we can just drop support for Z files from anonftp altogether.
>
>We already don't have compress, there should be no reason to keep it
>around for ftp.
>
UNIX Compress files are still used quite alot because it is a standard
compression program that comes "out of the box" with the most platforms.
I'm not convinced the world has migrated to gzip yet and there are
commercial issues in doing so. I suggest you consider keeping some
support for this type of file.

Ed-T.



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