Bug in compress - (nf)

[Rob Warnock]

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| You are absolutely correct.  The above code was inserted for the
| Perkin-Elmer machine which outputs a 4 times slower compare instruction
| without the "(unsigned)".  The correct fix follows:
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Uhh... This may be a stupid question, but if it's that slow, would there
be any problem in simply defining "EOF" to be "((unsigned) -1)" in the
Interdata "stdio.h"? That way, everyone in the world doesn't have to
put "#ifdef interdata" in the code.


Rob Warnock
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