Problem with compress

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert):
> Am I alone in thinking that the way compress handles symlinks is just fine.

Apparently so.

>What I don't like is the way it handles hard links.  What would be wrong with
>'compress foo' just creating the compressed 'foo.Z' and deleting 'foo', and
>'uncompress foo.Z' creating the uncompressed 'foo' and removing 'foo.Z'?

Compress has that behavior when invoked with the "-f" flag.
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