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From: theacct@bill.ucsc.edu (El hombre de pelo estranja)
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Subject: Re: Download blues
Keywords: ppmore, powerpacker, pp,
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Date: 29 Mar 91 20:53:57 GMT
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In article <11432@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> drichard@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (David Richards) writes:
>Ok, here is the problem.  I downloaded StarTrekker1.2 from ab20 a couple 
>nights ago.  I expected game, but I got some kind of music program instead.
>That's fine, I was looking for one anyway.  The problem is the doc file.  It
>is named StarTrekker1.2.doc.pp, and seems to be compressed or otherwise 
>encoded.  I can't find a way to uncode the docs, and I can't figure out the 
>program without them.  Who can tell me what is going on?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave
>
>DRICHARDS@HMCVAX.CLARMONT.EDU

The .pp suffix stands for 'powerpacker' and it means that it was compressed 
(or rather, 'crunched') using the Power Packer program by Nico Francois, it 
has an option for crunching text. To read the file you can either:

A> Get Power Packer and unpack the text file, never to worry about it being
unpacked again.

B> Get a program called PPMore(Nico too?) which is just a pager that
uncrunches text if it's crunched.  PowerPacker and PPmore should both be
available on abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov via anonymous ftp or you should be able 
to grab it from the Fish Collection if you have access to it.


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