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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)
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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.


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