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- C O M P R E S S E D A R C H I V E D F I L E S
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- Below are some of the most frequent archived file types
- you are likely to run into on BBSs. The program to
- uncompress these files can also be found on BBSs. Today,
- the vast majority of Bulletin Board System OPerators
- (SYSOPs) use PKZIP to ZIP their IBM files. See the next
- section for "How to Unzip Zipped Files."
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- .ARC A compressed archived file. You can usually
- uncompress these by using PKUNPAK.EXE, by PKWARE,
- Inc.
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- .ARJ A compressed archived file. You can extract these
- files using ARJ.EXE, by Robert K. Jung. This is
- a shareware program.
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- .ICE A file compressed by LHice.
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- .LZH A compressed archived file. To uncompress this
- type of file, you need LHA.EXE, by Haruyasu
- Yoshizaki. This is freeware.
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- .PAK A compressed archived file. To uncompress, you
- need a shareware program called PAK.EXE, by
- NoGate Consulting.
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- .SDN A compressed archived file distributed by SDN
- International. This is Fidonet's Shareware
- Distribution Network. To uncompress .SDN files
- dated 1993 and later use ARJ.EXE version 2.41 or
- later. ARJ.EXE is a shareware program. .SDN files
- prior to 1993 require PAK.EXE, by NoGate
- Consulting, to uncompress.
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- .ZIP A compressed archived file. You need PKUNZIP.EXE
- to uncompress and use these files. This is a
- shareware program. PKUNZIP is by PKWARE, Inc. You
- will want the latest version to insure complete
- unzipping. It changes periodically.
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- .ZOO A compressed archived file. Requires ZOO.EXE to
- uncompress.
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