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A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution
> Tooling [...] compiling the 4.3 BSD compress program, which is no longer part of modern Unix systems, in order to decompress the 386BSD distributions.
I don't think this was needed -- gunzip can actually read that format.
DSpinellis
on May 23, 2015
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You're right; I had forgotten that. I simplified the corresponding process.
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I don't think this was needed -- gunzip can actually read that format.