Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The symlink > to `compress' is put in simply because it seems odd that `uncompress' would > be present but not its counterpart. Was there a specific reason that > `compress' has been left out of the gzip package?
Yes, old patent restrictions. It's not correct to link 'gzip' to 'compress', since 'compress' is supposed to use a different (formerly patented) algorithm. One of these days we may add support for 'compress' to 'gzip', but it's not there now.
