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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: ModPlayer.app.squfold
- Message-ID: <55586@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:44:45 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.115245.35329@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <1992Jul28.115245.35329@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de>
- uli@aida.intellektik.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Ulrich Grepel) writes:
- > In article <ceQ1mSW00WBO42C1sh@andrew.cmu.edu>, mk46+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew
- E. Kowalczyk) writes:
- > |>
- > |> This is a squash file. You will need "Squash.app" to decompress it. This
- > |> however is not, unfortunately, a public domain program, so you will have
- > |> to find someone who has Squash to help you out.
- > |>
- > There is a public domain version that can unsquash such files, called
- UnSquash
- > or something like that.
-
- UnSquashOnly.Z (in pub/next/2.0-release/binaries)
- will do it. (Maybe should be demos since it's an ad for a
- commercial product.) I've been unhappy with Squash, so
- you can bet it won't be Squashed anymore when it gets out of
- submissions.
-
- (I cannot begin to describe my feeling of disgust and
- revulsion toward most of these archiving programs. I've
- seen and used most of them and have not been pleased yet.
- Especially when they're commercial products. Kind of
- explains why I don't use them on the files at sonata/nova,
- eh?)
-
- ab
-