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- From: frnk@cs1.bradley.edu (Paul Ondercin)
- Subject: Re: NITEMARE missions for Wolf-3D v1.1+
- Message-ID: <frnk.724572635@cs1.bradley.edu>
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- Organization: Bradley University
- References: <1992Dec8.192816.24756@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec11.175813.4133@atlastele.com> <1992Dec14.215313.1642@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 06:10:35 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.215313.1642@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen) writes:
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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).
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- They mean using a compression program like PKLITE won't work. It keeps the
- files compressed, yet allows them to run in that format.
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- Usually.
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