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From: farren@well.sf.ca.us (Mike Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: the stereo sound player question revisited
Message-ID: <18171@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 27 May 90 08:08:54 GMT
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91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) writes:
>	I also neglected to mention that I saw that program in my search, but
>it was archived with COMPRESS.  Now, since I only have a 1 meg A500, and our
>node is VMS, that means I can't unpack *.Z files!!!!  The good news is that I
>found a good stereo player on a BBS recently.

>	Does anyone out there have a Compress utility that will work in UNDER
>one meg????  Perhaps Xanth should start storing their files in a less
>proprietary format (yeah, right :).

compress is hardly proprietary - the sources for it are readily available,
and it can be found on all kinds of systems.  Perhaps xanth has a copy.
It also runs just fine on a 512K Amiga, let alone a 1M machine.  Of course,
you'd better not be doing anything ELSE on that 512K machine, but it WILL
work.
-- 
Mike Farren 				     farren@well.sf.ca.us