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- From: macrides@wfeb2.bitnet
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.d
- Subject: Re: Unable to unzip GAWK ??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.112806.93@wfeb2>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:28:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec8.185422.4248@netcom.com> <9558790@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Organization: Worcester Fndn. for Exptl. Biol.
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- In article <9558790@MVB.SAIC.COM>, Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard) writes:
- >[...]
- > I announced some time ago my intention to post large submissions in a
- > compressed format. ZIP was chosen because it not only maintains the VMS file
- > attributes but had by far the better compression capability. Any compressed
- > posting requires only UNZIP v5.0 and any version of MFTU in order to unpack.
- >[...]
- > Mark Berryman
- > Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com
- > vmsnet.sources moderator
-
- Version 8+ levels of VMS_SHARE can encode binary files. GAWK.ZIP is
- 1145 blocks, and GAWK.MFTU is 1694 blocks. Why was the MFTUing done, i.e.,
- did it do something that's desirable despite the increase in size?
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