Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!sunee!gpsteffl
From: gpsteffl@sunee.waterloo.edu (Glenn Patrick Steffler)
Subject: Re: Windows installation disk compression?
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.210349.28685@sunee.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Gerbils On Speed Inc.
References: <12281.27a9a905@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 21:03:49 GMT
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In article <12281.27a9a905@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes:
>Does anyone know the format that the Windows documents (*.txt) are compressed
>in on the installation disks?  I accidentally deleted them earlier during a

Doesn't anyone read the menuals anymore?  Look up "expand".  Or if you
trust me...nyuk nyuk nyuk :-) ...

"expand a:foo.txt c:" or something like that.

The expand utility is probably on the main setup disk.

>*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  :-)

The dude who wrote the utilities was hired to write compression/decompression
software such that MS wouldn't have to worry about software rights, etc.
(just idle conjecture on my part...but he did a good job)

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

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