Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: uncompress for MS-DOS Message-ID: <4772@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 7 Dec 88 18:01:04 GMT References:<47@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) Distribution: na Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 21 In article <47@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> greggt@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregg Thompson) writes: >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. PC compress can be used on binaries. There is an option to do it (don't remember exactly what it is, -e maybe? Look in the docs). However, you have to remember to uncompress with the same option. In general, it isn't worth it and binaries don't usually compress much anyway. ======================================================================== ! James W. Birdsall Compu$erve: 71261,1731 ! ! jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU jwbirdsa@bogey.Princeton.EDU ! ! jwbirdsa@pucc.BITNET ...allegra!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa! ======================================================================== ! During emergency landing, replace dinner tray and bring seat to ! ! upright position. Extinuish all smoking materials... including ! ! spacecraft, if possible. --Calvin ! ========================================================================