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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: msdos uncompress utility
Message-ID: <273ce178.555d@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 90 05:28:24 GMT
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In an article w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) wrote:
>WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.2.0.74]
>Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ>
> Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
>==============================================
>COMP430D.ZIP  B   20241  901013  Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat

There is another one called DECOMP2.ZIP on SIMTEL.
WARNING:  DECOMP.EXE has a bug.  It often crashes DOS upon exit.  Apparently
it is not freeing allocated memory in the far heap, and when it exits,
DOS can't reload COMMAND.COM.

The source code is includec with DECOMP, but I haven't had time to debug
it.  Anyway, COMP430D mentioned above seems to work ok.

-- 
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