[3517] in SIPB bug reports
re: frivolous suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Mon Feb 15 22:43:43 1993
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 93 22:43:27 -0500
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: caw@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: caw@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Mon, 15 Feb 93 18:13:23 -0500 <9302152313.AA26180@navigator>
>> HI there. A bunch of us consultants were sitting around trying
>> desperately to recall how to "unfreeze" a frozen file; We figured out
It should have occurred to you to type "man freeze", which
would immediately tell you:
NAME
freeze, unfreeze, melt, fcat - compress and uncompress
files
I'll grant that the names were chosen by the original author (a
resident of Moscow) but they seem reasonable, and are automatically
installed by the Makefiles that the author releases.
>> melt? To me, the opposite of "freeze" is "thaw". Maybe even a link
Thaw seems to me to be passive -- as opposed to melt which
seems active. Freeze is more ambiguous. In any case, thank you for the
suggestion.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
