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From: cinf07@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Miguel Pedro et Louis Sabbat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Files with "!" ?
Summary: ZIP/UNZIP format
Keywords: zip unzip format compression
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.125621.4569@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 91 12:56:21 GMT
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In article <19928@brahms.udel.edu> hamilton@brahms.udel.edu (Andrew W Hamilton) writes:
>I downloaded some files via ftp from mars.ee.msstate.edu.  Several of them seem
>to be in parts, with each part called something like "1!PROGRAMNAME" (with each
>file having a different number in the beginning).

Those files are ZIPed. You need the ZIP/UNZIP program. I believe it is
available on one of the CBM ftp sites.

It doesn't dissolve on the same disk (like Lynx does) so if all the files
(1!, 2!, 3!, 4!...) don't fit on the same disk, it's no problem. It basically
compresses the WHOLE disk into a few files (1!, 2!, etc...).


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   Miguel Pedro
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