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- From: cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,rec.games.misc
- Subject: Re: NITEMARE missions for Wolf-3D v1.1+
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.215313.1642@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 21:53:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.192816.24756@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec11.175813.4133@atlastele.com>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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- In article <1992Dec11.175813.4133@atlastele.com> markf@atlastele.com (Mark Ferris) writes:
- >I'm curious about the blurb in the instruct.com file that says they won't
- >work if they've been compressed. The file I got from /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS
- >was compressed and didn't work. What in the compression/decompression
- >cycle is there that can cause these not to work? It's not like we're
- >dealing with a lossy compression using ZIP or ARJ, so what's happening?
-
- I saw this blurb too and was sort of surprised. So I uncompressed
- the files and they worked just fine for me, I even used the commercial
- version (which the file says you cannot).
- I also compressed the files myself and uncompressed them, and they
- still worked just fine.
-
- Cliff Chen
- cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
-