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MASH is a small, fast Lempel-Ziv file compression utility compatible with
the UN*X "Compress" utility. MASH is designed to compress and decompress
Amiga text and binary files. While MASH is not a file archiver like ARC, it
does compress individual files at least as well as ARC, and up to
seven times faster! Decompression is similarly quick. MASH'ed files are
easy to spot -- they have a ".Z" suffix. You can decompress files
that have been compressed on UN*X using the "compress -b14 <file>" command,
and files produced by Steve Drew's hard disk backup utility, SDBackUp.
To compress a file named "foo", producing a file named "foo.Z", type:
1> mash foo
To decompress a file named "foo.Z" to "foo", type:
1> mash -d foo.Z
MASH allows multiple filenames, and when decompressing files, the ".Z"
suffix is optional. For a list of command line options, type "mash" by
itself.
If you need to compress seldom used files and ARC is just plain overkill,
or if you need to download lots of bytes from a UN*X host, MASH may be the
answer. Besides, MASH is FreeWare, as opposed to GuiltWare.
Enjoy!
Justin V. McCormick