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- MASH is a small, fast Lempel-Ziv file compression utility compatible with
- the UN*X "Compress" utility. MASH is designed to compress and decompress
- Amiga text and binary files. While MASH is not a file archiver like ARC, it
- does compress individual files at least as well as ARC, and up to
- seven times faster! Decompression is similarly quick. MASH'ed files are
- easy to spot -- they have a ".Z" suffix. You can decompress files
- that have been compressed on UN*X using the "compress -b14 <file>" command,
- and files produced by Steve Drew's hard disk backup utility, SDBackUp.
-
- To compress a file named "foo", producing a file named "foo.Z", type:
- 1> mash foo
-
- To decompress a file named "foo.Z" to "foo", type:
- 1> mash -d foo.Z
-
- MASH allows multiple filenames, and when decompressing files, the ".Z"
- suffix is optional. For a list of command line options, type "mash" by
- itself.
-
- If you need to compress seldom used files and ARC is just plain overkill,
- or if you need to download lots of bytes from a UN*X host, MASH may be the
- answer. Besides, MASH is FreeWare, as opposed to GuiltWare.
-
- Enjoy!
- Justin V. McCormick
-