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From: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer)
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Subject: Re: problems with !extract
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Date: 22 May 91 07:22:25 GMT
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In article <2547@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> zzassgl@mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:

>While on the subject, when running !extract the hourglass does not seem
>ever to go below about 97%. It slowly steps down to 97% and then the
>extracted file(s) appear.

The percentage is used to show which stage Extract has got to:

99: uudecoding
98: decompressing
97: detarring

Note that these numbers only hold if the compress stage is present. If it
isn't (normally caused by posting squeezed images, which don't compress
further) then the numbers can become arbitrary :-)

--Fil.

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Philip Colmer, OA Project Leader, Acorn Computers Ltd (pcolmer@acorn.co.uk)