ESIX compress(1) broken (was: Re: Using Interactive TPWB...)

[Piercarlo Grandi]

In article <1991Jan7.154351.16652 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
  
  When I first installed B news on my ESIX system several months ago, I
  copied /usr/bin/compress to /usr/lib/news, rather than compiling the
  compress that came with news software.  Compressed news batches
  didn't work.  It turns out that "compress -d", which is used by news
  software to uncompress batches, does not work with the ESIX-supplied
  compress.

At times when I see these article I chortle. Have you tried 'uncompress'?
have you tried 'compress -u'? Have you RTFM?

Bah. A little more alertness would help a lot in these cases...
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