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From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.bsd,comp.compression,alt.internet.services,alt.comp.compression,comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: DOS util to unpack and uncompress
Message-ID: <931008.014217.4m7.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 01:42:17 MDT
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Reply-To: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz)
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moved to the right group!

mercury@techbook.techbook.com (Andy Burt) writes:

>>utility that will let me unpack/uncompress the files
> 
> If you have ftp access, you can ftp to any simtel20 mirror and go to the
> msdos:compress and get the file comp430d.zip .

I don't believe this will un_pack_ files (but, even if I'm wrong...)
but gzip _will_ uncompress and unpack.  available as gzip*.* in the
same place.

Directory MSDOS/COMPRESS/
GZIP107.ZIP   B   45376  930322  GNUzip: Unix compress/uncompress replacement

(of course, 107 isn't the current version anymore)
-- 
Russell Schulz  russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca  ersys!rschulz  Shad 86c