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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ZIP/ARC/LZH/ZOO "Servers" in Windows
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.200136.6023@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 20:01:36 GMT
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Sender: Aaron Wallace
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In article <3108@ryn.esg.dec.com> yon%consl4.esg.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com (David Yon) writes:
>
>From taking a cursory glance through my SDK manuals, it appears
>that it would be possible to use DDE to implement a compression
>"server" program.  This program would sit as an icon and accept
>requests for compression and decompression of files.  Perhaps
>it would also have a UI to be run as a stand-alone program, but 
>implementing a DDE-interface to the compression functionality
>would allow programs like ZIP-Manager, Click!, and perhaps even
>communications programs to leverage the compression algorithms
>without having to jump into real mode *and* without having to
>reinvent or license the code themselves.

Actually, there is a decompression routine that comes with Windows that is
used in the Setup program--I wonder if this can be used as a "freebie" in
a decompresser for Windows archives?  ANyone know the format MS uses???

Aaron Wallace