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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Is there a MSDOS .Z uncompress utility?
Keywords: compress uncompress .Z
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.121315.1523@uwasa.fi>
Date: 9 Apr 91 12:13:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.203219.15740@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <fictorie.671102802@freyr> <1991Apr8.172213.1606@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991Apr8.172213.1606@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
:
>>      COMP430D.ZIP   Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat 901013
>
>I downloaded and used COMP430D.  A problem I've run into is that
>compressed text files, when uncompressed on my PC, have had their
>carriage return codes inexplicably transformed to ^Js.  Any solutions,
>suggestions, etc?
:

   This is a common problem.  Unix and MsDos use different eolns (end
of lines) for text files.  Msdos uses ascii 13 10 while Unix uses
10.  Might it be that COMP430D just puts is the ascii 10 (^J).  
   If this is the case, you can easily remedy the situation by
running the text file (after extraction) through a suitable text
editor, such as /pc/editor/qedit21.zip, or a suitable filter such as
unix2pc.exe in /pc/ts/tsfilt16.arc.  Try either to see what happens. 

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