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From: daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows installation disk compression?
Message-ID: <12281.27a9a905@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 17:44:37 GMT
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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know the format that the Windows documents (*.txt) are compressed
in on the installation disks?  I accidentally deleted them earlier during a
quest for more disk space, and need them back, but do not wish to install
windows again.  The docs exist on the disks separately, but are in a
semi-compressed form (I assume that's what's wrong with them).  Is there a way
to get them back to normal text without the entire installation process?
(On another occasion, the fileman program got cross-linked, and I wanted to
restore that program from the disks, but it was also compressed somehow)

*To any Microsoft people out there: In future programs, how about using a 
standard compression format like .zip or .arc, which would give better 
compression and avoid problems like mine  :-)

Thanks,
Bryon Daly
daly@omega.ecs.umass.edu