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[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <2984 at cbnews.ATT.COM> mvadh at cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay) writes:

>the ones that i've seen put the compress in the temporary installation
>directory; it gets blown away when install exits.

It gets installed with the terminfo disk and stays put.

>or
>b)	if compress is not already installed, you probably don't have
>	rights (?) to it.

I compiled the version from the news distribution with the shared library
and stripped it.  This produced a binary of exactly the same length as the
one from the terminfo disk.

Les Mikesell