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[andrew.d.hay]

In article <1106 at naucse.UUCP> jdc at naucse.UUCP (John Campbell) writes:
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-->I also vaguely remember someone stating that AT&T installs often put a
-->new compress in place.  This was a problem for some reason, but I can't
-->remember what the real issue was.  Hopefully someone will take pity, and
-->do a follow up to this article (or add the info to commonly asked 3b1
-->questions).


the ones that i've seen put the compress in the temporary installation
directory; it gets blown away when install exits.
i don't know if this is because:
a)	it might trash a compress already installed
or
b)	if compress is not already installed, you probably don't have
	rights (?) to it.

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