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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: UUCP problems
Message-ID: <769@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 15:11:45 GMT
References: <891204154704.711381@DMZRZU71-UNI-MAINZ--GERMANY>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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CPM@DMZRZU71.BITNET sez:
> Instead the docs are packed in a strange way, they are not crunched or
> squeezed, but have the character 'Y' as the middle char of the file
> extension ( *.DYC). What does this mean? A new reducing technique?

This is indeed a new compression method - to uncompress it look for
CRLZH, or EXL: both of these will allow extraction of the file. .?Y?
and .?Z? are the current best methods, in 90% of cases I've tried,
.?Y? files come out smaller than the corresponding .?Z? file.
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