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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: sys 7.0 system compressed?
Keywords: sys 7.0 system file
Message-ID: <53673@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 21:10:53 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.203236.16230@milton.u.washington.edu> <53596@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Jun4.072822.22462@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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In article <1991Jun4.072822.22462@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>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]

I wanted to do this, too. Since decmompressing a resource is simply a
matter of reading it, I wrote a little MPW tool to read in all the
Finder resources and write them out to another file. I now had a file
with uncompressed CODE resources. Unfortunately, MacNosy seemed to find
something it didn't like and couldn't parse up the result. One culprit
might be the fact that Finder doesn't ship with a CODE(6)...

Unless Apple releases a compression tool, there is no way to recompress
your resources. However, unless you are short on disk space, there
shouldn't be a reason to do this.

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