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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: varia
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Date: 6 Oct 88 17:25:14 GMT
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KAPFFER@DMZRZU71.BITNET (Matthias Kapffer) writes:
>4)  While I'm on the subject of saving net bandwidth: When distributing ProDOS
>   16  (oops,  GS/OS)  software (to be more specific: OMF files), it should be
>   ensured  that  they  are  in the shortest V2 format by applying the COMPACT
>   utility  from  APW.   Free Term GS, for example, will go down from 63488 to
>   44838  bytes,  a  reduction  by  29% !  Of course, this is directed more to
>   programmers.   (I've  even  seen  commercial programs which I could back up
>   from two onto one disk with the help of COMPACT !)

I don't have the COMP utility.  I use the Orca/M environment for APW-type
development.  How can I gain the use of this utility?

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