Date   : Sun, 29 Mar 1992 12:40:38 GMT
From   : pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!lhuron.enet.dec.com!brown@decwrl.dec.com (Raymond J. Brown)
Subject: Re: .tzt .tqt

In article <1992Mar29.081123.15496@uwm.edu>, mrdunn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael
Robert Dunn) writes...
>I'm just starting to download some cpm software and I noticed a bunch
>of files with a z or a q in the middle of the extention.  I assume
>this means its been compressed in some way, but how and how do I
>uncompress them (if that is in fact what's been done to them)?
>thanks for anyhelp you can give me.

The files with z in them are "crunched" using LZW techniques, very simular
to UNIX compress. The ones with the "q" are "squeezed" with Huffman encoding
There are many programs that deal with these files look in the same place
you found the files for an area labled "starter" or LIB-ARC or something
like that. The programs I use are UNCR.COM and USQ.COM or NUSQ.COM .
Most of the PD areas on the networks or BBS's have a "STARTER" area
where you find uncompressed and unarchived versions of these programs
along with introductory text that explains how to get started.

Ray Brown  rjbrown@giamem.enet.dec.com
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