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From: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Compression
Message-ID: <434@epicb.com>
Date: 1 Oct 90 03:46:29 GMT
Reply-To: jerry@truevision.com (Jerry Thompson)
Organization: Truevision Inc., Indianapolis, IN
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There was a CP/M program for the Osborne 1 which effectively allowed you to
"CD" into a .arc file as if it were a directory.  You could type, copy, and
execute the crunched files in the archive just as if they were regular
files.  All the info in the .arc was automagically unarchived before being
shown so things like file sizes were reported as the uncrunched value.
Anyone want to write a .arc (.zoo, .zip, .lzh ...) device driver?



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