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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Subject: Re: sys 7.0 system compressed?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.072822.22462@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Keywords: sys 7.0 system file
Sender: torrie@neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1991 07:28:22 GMT
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nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) writes:

>  Some of the resources in the System and Finder are compressed so we could
>make a bootable 1.4 meg floppy.  To the user, it doesn't matter if the resource
>is compressed or not;  it'll just take up more space on your disk if it's
>uncompressed, but that's the only effect it will have.

  Is there any way of "decompressing" a file with these compressed resources, 
and then "recompress" them?
  I'd like to poke around with that venerable tool, MacNosy, but it doesn't
grok compressed CODE resources (understandably).
[Actually, I only want to do this to get rid of those blasted zooming windows!
 Please, please, make this an option in Finder 7.1]

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