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Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by bodyfour on Friday May 22, 2015 @07:56PM (#9591445)
> Tooling [...] compiling the 4.3 BSD compress program, which is no longer part of modern Unix systems, in order to decompress the 386BSD distributions.

I don't think this was needed -- gunzip can actually read that format.

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Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by DSpinellis on Saturday May 23, 2015 @06:21AM (#9592518)
You're right; I had forgotten that. I simplified the corresponding process.
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