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vax 7.2R: uncompress, misleading error message

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 27 17:16:20 1991

From: cfields@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 17:16:28 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU

What's wrong?

--> uncompress foo.Z
foo.Z: not in compressed format
--> fsid server (NFS)
fsid: server.mit.edu mapped
---> uncompress foo.Z
--->

I.e., uncompress gives a misleading error message when your NFS
mappings have expired.

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