John Uhlig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > CMU used to have a special version of compress that did this right for
> > AFS. Basically, you need to make a system call on the uncompressed file
> > to make sure it's at the server before you zap the original. I'm not
> > sure where to get it;
>
> Does anyone know of this compress and where I might find it?
Just check the return value on close(). Many older UNIX programs never
bothered to check - hence the problem. This is all that we did. Most
newer things, like GNU Zip (which also uncompresses .Z) , do this
right ...
dan
cmu computing services
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