Problems with Compress 4.1 (as posted comp.sources.misc)

[Dave Mack]

The version of compress 4.1 posted to comp.sources.misc is a
pre-release version and has a number of fairly serious bugs.
I recommend not using it until I post a patch or two to bring it
up to date. Unfortunately, the posted version of compress4.1
hasn't arrived at my site yet, so I don't have the posted version
to make diffs against. If someone in the DC/MD/VA area could
email me a copy of the posted code, I'd appreciate it.

In addition, there appears to be another version of compress floating
around called compress4.3, which is supposed to be both faster and
more portable than the compress4.0 code on which compress4.1 is
based. As far as I can tell, compress4.3 has never been posted to
the net, but is available at several anonymous FTP sites. At some point
in the near future, I will attempt to get in touch with the persons
responsible for the 4.3 version to reconcile code changes and
version numbers. Presumably, you can all expect a release of
compress4.4 sometime this summer.

In the meantime, please keep those patches, complaints and words
of praise pouring in.

-- 
Dave Mack
csu at alembic.acs.com
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