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From: lucifer@world.std.com (Kevin S Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: IBM file archive formats
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.230050.27722@world.std.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 23:00:50 GMT
References: <6782@crash.cts.com>
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <6782@crash.cts.com> joeq@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Joe Quilici) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from lucifer@world.std.com
>
>Unfortunately I do not have either of the two.  Now that the answer is
>seemingly no, would it be a relatively simple task to write a program either
>in assemble or applesoft that when fed the appropriate parameters, un-pack the
>information?  It would be neat, so to speak, to have such a program, that
>could unpack or pack a file given a specific compression code you provide. 
>I bet pirates would have a great deal of fun with that however...
>
>----

Joe, 
 Well, I already responded to this (sort of) in a previous post, but hey..
it is only bandwidth. I think I have the //gs Unzip source code lurking
about somewhere but it is in C (I think). 

As for a program for file compression with parameters, I actually had a 
similar idea the other day but for the //gs (listen up developers):
A toolbox set that does file compression/decompression in all the popular
formats. Imagine the kinds of programs you could write. (Of course that
wouldn't help you in your immediate problem.)


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