COMPRESS bug? Has this happened to YOU?

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From: Forrie Aldrich
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 03:10

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I have had, a few times, an interesting thing happen to me when using
this newer version of compress:

$Header: compress.c,v 4.0 85/07/30 12:50:00 joe Release $
Options: BITS = 16

When I am in the middle of 'zcat'ing a file, and I stop/interrupt, suddenly
the file I was looking at disappears and is gone without a trace.

Can anyone explain why this is so?  I think I will revert back to the older
version of compress that I had, as I never had problems with it.

Thanks,

Forrie

PS:  I snarfed this version of compress from the gnu archives on
prep.ai.mit.edu ...

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