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From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: file compression
Message-ID: <437@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 25 Oct 89 14:16:23 GMT
References: <8910250355.AA02351@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>
Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
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In article <8910250355.AA02351@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>, yk4@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Yong Su Kim) writes:
> 
> 	I have seen files which end in ".Z" and they cannot be de-compressed
> using BINSCII nor SHRINKIT. Therefore I presume that it is some other
> compression format. Does anyone have a program which can decompress such 
> files or know of an FTP site which has the program? 

They're compressed with unix COMPRESS.  It's an LZW compression program
available at a ton of FTP sites and does quite well when compressing.  :-)

andy

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