On Tue, 13 Jun 2005, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
>> It's what compress/uncompress and gzip/gunzip do, too...
>
> It may be historical practice, but it's bad historical practice. At
> the very least you have to have a flag to set what to do, regardless
> of the name. What does the program do when you run it as
> "nbclcompress", or "clcompress-test", or whatever?

Right now: complain & abort.
What do you suggest? Make only a "vncompress" that handles -c(compress) 
and -d(ecompress)/-u(ncompress)? That's what it did initially, but I 
really find using two names easier.


  - Hubert