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From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: uncompress for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <513@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 13 Dec 88 12:28:28 GMT
References: <KPETERSEN.12452237274.BABYL@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> <47@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown)
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In article <> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes:
>	I tried the compress programs from simtel20, and from several
>other places and I have found the same results.  Compress fro the PC is ONLY
>for TEXT files!  Everytime I compress a file on my PC with any of these 
>it stops at the same place a file listing would stop if you executed a 
>type command on the binary file.

Add statements like

#include <fcntl.h>
	setmode(fileno(stdin), O_BINARY);
	setmode(fileno(stdout), O_BINARY);

at appropriate places in the code.  Put them inside a #ifdef MSDOS.
This works using MSC.