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- From: salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne)
- Subject: Re: rok plan (was: trial) - a correction
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.214626.8643@nic.funet.fi>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 21:46:26 GMT
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- In <1992Dec22.175340.16567@nic.funet.fi> salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne) writes:
-
- >2. uncompress will unpack the binary file to it's original
- > extent. compression was done to save space and bandwidth.
- > I don't have uncompress for DOS, I don't know if it exist.
- > The problem is that *.zip *.lzh *.zoo etc.. are not common
- > in UNIX world.
-
- After writing that, I looked around in (on?) the local mirror
- of SIMTEL20. I found a DOS version of UNIX compress in
- directory compress (!). The file names are comp430?.zip.
-
- So, all the bits and pices (uudecode, uncompress, tar and
- ghostscipt are available for DOS, too. And they are free.
- (I have not tried it yet).
-
- Smooth Winds
- Simo Salanne
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