v20i064: compress - Compress 4.1, Part01/02

[Gert Kanis]

In article <1991Jun26.221030.23987> jtc at motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) writes:
>In article <csm-v20i064=compress.133807 at sparky.imd.sterling.com> Dave Mack <csu at alembic.ACS.COM> writes:
>>Posting-number: Volume 20, Issue 64
>>Archive-name: compress/part01
>>
>>This is Compress, Version 4.1. This submission consists of two parts.
>
>This new version of compress seems to have the old problem with zcat
>somtimes deleting the compressed file when interrupted.  I thought
>this bug was fixed long ago.
>-- 
>J.T. Conklin    jtc at motcad.portal.com, ...!portal!motcad!jtc

I'm confused. We have had compress 4.2 for some four years or so
and now someone comes up with a new 4.1 (based on 4.0).

Could someone shed a bit of light on this (Chip Salzenberg , Dave Mack ?)
please ?

partly diff of compress.c versions 4.1 (newly) and 4.2 (from 1987) enclosed
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*** compress.c  Sun May 26 18:09:31 1991
--- compress42.c        Thu Jun 04 16:32:08 1987

[ Many other differences deleted]

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*** 139,147 ****
   *		Joe Orost		(decvax!vax135!petsd!joe)
!  *		Dave Mack		(csu at alembic.acs.com)
!  *
!  * Revision 4.1   91/05/26  	  csu at alembic.acs.com
!  * Modified to recursively compress directories ('r' flag). As a side
!  * effect, compress will no longer attempt to compress things that
!  * aren't "regular" files. See Changes.
   *
   * Revision 4.0  85/07/30  12:50:00  joe
--- 129,141 ----
   *		Joe Orost		(decvax!vax135!petsd!joe)
!  *              Chip Salzenberg         (gatech!usfvax2!ateng!chip)
   *
+  * $Header: compress.c,v 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip Release $
+  * $Log:	compress.c,v $
+  * 
+  * Revision 4.2  87/06/04  16:32:00  chip
+  * Add "oftrash" flag -- don't unlink output file if input file is gone!!
+  * 
+  * Revision 4.1  87/05/07  16:32:00  chip
+  * Go ahead and compress linked files if `force' flag is on.
+  * 
   * Revision 4.0  85/07/30  12:50:00  joe
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*** 256,258 ****
   */
! static char version_id[] = "compress.c 4.1";
  
--- 250,252 ----
   */
! static char rcs_ident[] = "$Header: compress.c,v 4.2 87/06/04 16:32:00 chip Release $";
  
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(Or should I've done it the other way round ?:-} )
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