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From: waynet@wiffle.techbook.com (Wayne Tilton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows installation disk compression?
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Date: 3 Feb 91 23:12:23 GMT
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>Does anyone know the format that the Windows documents (*.txt) are
>compressed in on the installation disks?

Microsoft provides an (undocumented) expansion utility on the Windows #2
disk that is used to expand the compressed files.  It's called EXPAND.EXE
and should be copied to your main Windows subdirectory.  The format is:

       EXPAND infile outfile

where: infile   is the filespec of the compressed file, normally on your
                A: drive.
       outifle  is the filespec of the resulting uncompressed file.

>*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  :-)

Why would they want to do that?  They might have to pay ANOTHER COMPANY
for using the compression/decompression programs and it might _seriously_
affect thier bottom line ;-)

Hope this helps,

Wayne