🚀 go-pugleaf

This month's "Worst Error Message of the Month Award" goes
unconditionally to compress 4.0.

The reason: compress is compiled and runnable on a 3B2/400 here.  I
hadn't installed the ulimit hack I use on SysVRel2 3B2s to make a huge
ulimit, so the ulimit was (we forgot) at 2048, or 1Mb max file size.
We had a file transferred to this system from another system.  The
original was 1.45Mb, the compressed version 550Kb.  File arrives in
compressed form to the new 3B2.  Uncompress is used to decompress it
back to its normal self.  Chug, chug, chug, uncompress hacks away at
it, and then finally announces:

	Not a typewriter

Well, duh!  That's right, it's NOT a typewriter.  It's a binary
executable, suitable for exec'ing.

It was only after mucking about with uncompress running in the bg, and
creating an extra link to the intermediate uncompressed file, that we
noticed that it stopped growing at 1048576, and then we got the
complaint again when it thought it was done - whereupon the
uncompressed version was removed so that the only way we could prove
what happened was with the extra link to keep a hold of it.

Lovely, just lovely.

Karl