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From: dougm@pnet51.cts.com (Doug Mcintyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Compress program..
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Date: 6 May 89 22:45:10 GMT
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gerardo@wpi.wpi.edu (Gerardo Leute) writes:
>Is there a program for the Apple II series (specifically the IIgs) that will
>uncompress the .Z files?  I'd much rather download a compressed file at 1200
>baud and then uncompress it on the Apple than having to uncompress it on the
>mainframe and download the whole thing (sometimes twice as long).
>

        I've ported compress v4.3 over to the IIGS. This will uncompress the
16 bit compression, and must be used by a shell such as APW (or ECP if you
patch it..) works kind of slow, but thenagain it is in C. The 16 bit
compression gets a little smaller than shrinkit does, but of course shrinkit
is about 6-10 times faster than this one. I'll send source/binaries to anyone
who mails me by shrinkit/binscii method..
If I get enough requests, and/or requests and instructions to post to the
archives, I'll give it to them as well..


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