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- From: bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: shell uncompress utility?
- Message-ID: <bazyar.712370020@teal>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 00:33:40 GMT
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- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden) writes:
-
- >compress, uncompress, and zcat are all the same program, just invoked
- >differently. On the //gs you can either make two copies of the program (ugh)
- >or invoke compress with an option which tells it to uncompress rather than
- >compress. I use a shell alias under Orca to do this.
-
- >So grab compress43.bsq, it's what you're looking for. It's also one hell of
- >a lot slower than GSHK. (Jawaid...?)
-
- Me? Don't look at me! :-) You're the LZW assembly wizard. Okay, I
- started assemblyizing comress43, but there are some odd bugs. Wanna
- take a look?
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