On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 06:56:29PM +0000, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> ?Edward Tandi? sagte am 2002-05-06 um 18:14:36 +0100 :
> > 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.
>
> Well, but there is support for compress as gzip can uncompress Z files.
>
Well we're talking about support for .Z files inside the anonftp package.
I'm not sure if it's exactly so useful for anonymous ftp anymore. If gzip
can be coaxed into manipulating .Z files inside anonftp that's fine, if not
I'm not going to go to do anything to fix it.
-- Geoff.
