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From: ravn@imada.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Unsqueezing, Uncrunching, Delbr, and Uncompress
Summary: Recommandation for EXL
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.175742.1741@imada.dk>
Date: 25 Feb 91 17:57:42 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
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Some time ago somebody asked about how to recreate the contents of a
compacted file.  There is various methods which is all supported by
numerous utility programs, that are all very well written.

Among these I stumbeled over a mailserver with some very interesting
programs on it, one of these being EXL which is written by David P.
Goodenough.

The original description follows...


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/send help sends help for rna
/send index sends a list of available files

[descriptions left out]

exl:	  A program to type squeezed (.?Q?), crunched (.?Z?), and LZH
	  compressed (.?Y?) files. It can also type from a .LBR library
	  file, either an uncompressed member, or one compressed as above;
	  and it can also send output to the printer, and extract single
	  files to disk. This is a preliminary release, but it may prove
	  useful for unwrapping .?Y? files. The final version will include
	  a filesweep mode for uncompressing multiple files either on disk,
	  or extracting multiple files from a .LBR
	  Written by David P. Goodenough, Current version *preliminary*

[more descriptions left out]

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I do not know if a later version has been released but I have used this
*preliminary version* since about early autum, and found it VERY handy.
You can actually "TYPE" a crunched text file within a library with one
command.

Unfortunately, the errormessages are not always very descriptive, which
once in a while is a bit confusing.

If anyone is interested you can send a letter to

   rna@harlie.lonestar.org

with ONE line in it saying

   "/send help"  or "/send exl" 

but it may take some time.  Otherwise, e-mail me, and I will send you my
copy (uudecoded).

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Thorbj\o{}rn Ravn Andersen
Internet: ravn@imada.dk