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The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 17:41 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:16:32 +0200 (CEST), Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> >Plus, there is a "/usr/share/man/man1p/compress.1p.gz" file that belongs
> >to "man-pages-2.41-11", but no compress binary anywhere.
>
> compress was removed because it used a patented compression algorithm
> ( I'm not shure if the patent is still valid though) and gzip can
> uncomress archives produced by compress.
Ah, I see. I think I remember now reading about it. The man page could
then include a note by suse/novell explaining the removal. It does say
that the algorithms are patented, though.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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