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- From: dain@holmes.ece.uc.edu (A. Dain Samples)
- Subject: Re: Widespread bug in "compress" and GIF compressors
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- Keywords: LZW, compress, GIF
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:09:21 GMT
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- In article <BzEzAM.3Gv.2@cs.cmu.edu>, tgl+@cs.cmu.edu (Tom Lane) writes:
- |> I've discovered a small bug in the standard Unix compress(1) utility.
- |> The bug is also present in many derived implementations of LZW
- |> compression,
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- Isn't the real problem now one of backward compatibility? If you
- modify your `compress'-compatible program, make sure you can still
- decompress old .Z files!!
-
- Just goes to show: software will ALWAYS be buggy.
-
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