Wojciech Bojdol wrote:

> When we're talking about defaults - old wtmp files shouldn't be gzipped,
> because last can't read them.

My (580ish kB) wtmp bzip2's down to about 12% of it's original size, so
having support for last(1) at least reading from a pipe would be nice.
Maybe an option to process the input file in forward-time order and
finish at EOF instead of the current stat-and-seek-to-end behaviour?

Simon.
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