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From: ianj@sactoh0 (Ian R. Justman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: What are ????????.?Z? files?
Summary: *.?Z? file description
Message-ID: <1597@sactoh0>
Date: 12 Jul 89 19:51:36 GMT
References: <685@greens.UUCP>
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Organization: SAC-UNIX (Public Access), Sacramento, Ca.
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In article <685@greens.UUCP>, matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) writes:
> Now, I know that ????????.?Q? files are files that have been compressed with
> SQ and can be uncompressed with USQ.  But, I've scene a number of files with
> ????????.?Z? file names. What programs are these compressed by.

Those files are compressed with a program called "CRUNCH".  You use
a program called "UNCRUNCH" to uncompress them.  Those programs are
self-documenting, so by typing "UNCRUNCH", "CRUNCH", "UNCR", "CR",
or whatever, you will get a syntatical diagram on how to use the
program.
> 
> Second question.  I can find a few programs that will de-ARC *.ark files 
> (compatible with MS-DOS *.arc files).  Are there any CP/M programs to create
> MS-DOS compatible archives?
> 

Yes there is.  It's a program called ARKxxx where xxx is the
revision number.

> Third question (related to the first).  Any LU type program that handles 
> library management, and automatically squeezes/unsqueezes files?

There is a program called NULU151 which does the job nicely.  It
will not only extract members of an .LBR file, it will unsqueeze
them, too.  However, I would like to see an uncrunching facility
added to it.

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