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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: COMPRESS - help (was ZOO.TTP help)
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Date: 23 Oct 90 07:56:40 GMT
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In article <828.2722a0bb@sleepy.bmd.trw.com>, jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com
writes:
|> Last question: How do you combine multipart, binary .Z files to
|> decompress
|> them.  I've tried "cat f1 f2 >>f3" from gulam but f3 always gets smaller
|> than
|> the starting files.  Word perfect and First word also don't like
|> binary...

Gulam'c cat is buggy. I once wrote a cat replacement which you can retrieve
from the panarthea archive server (volume6/cat). It should be available
also from atari.archive.umich.edu.

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