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To: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: viewing gzipped tar file fails (19.15 & 20.1)
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From: Mark Borges <mdb@cdc.noaa.gov>
Date: 24 Apr 1997 18:39:18 -0600
In-Reply-To: Kyle Jones's message of Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:18:06 -0400 (EDT)
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>> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:18:06 -0400 (EDT),
>> Kyle Jones(KJ) wrote:
KJ> Mark Borges writes:
>> [...]
>> Since crypt.el is an orphan and broke, I think it falls under Kyle's
>> critera for removal. That, or someone should step up, adopt it and fix
>> it. I don't think it's a hard problem to fix, but I don't want to take 
>> on the maintenance responsibility myself.

KJ> I would agree, except that I don't think this is broken behavior.
KJ> If the magic number is wrong, what do you expect crypt to do?

The magic number is not wrong. I think crypt should invoke unzip -p on
it, of course. 

KJ> And is crypt++ really orphaned?  I thought there was going to be
KJ> rewrite under the name encode.el or something like that.

News to me. I know for a fact Larry Dodd, the principal maintainer,
abandoned it. I'm not certain about R. Whitby. But you're listed as
the third author, so maybe you should fix it...

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