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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: msdos uncompress utility
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References: <2693@ux.acs.umn.edu> <1633@umriscc.isc.umr.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 12:42:05 GMT

In article <1633@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes:
>In article <2693@ux.acs.umn.edu> anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) writes:
>>I'm looking for an msdos uncompressing utility.  I have several "blah.tar.Z"
>>files on my hard drive and I need to uncompress them (obviously).
>>Any suggestions?
>>Thanks.
 (lots of sources deleted)
Be aware that many programs that claim to handle 16 bit compress on the PC have
not been completed tested. In particular, the Unix port that I had been given
which was compiled with TurboC V2.0 would prematurely terminate when 16 bit
codes were finally used. It is a sign extension problem when promoting unsigned
chars in an expression into a long int result. I have fixed my version.
Carefully check yours before you completely trust it.
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