Date   : Mon, 30 Mar 1992 11:16:54 GMT
From   : world!bmarcum@decwrl.dec.com (Bill Marcum)
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.
>
>
Who's got the CP/M FAQ list?
(Note to Usenet newcomers: FAQ means Frequently Asked Questions, and almost
every newsgroup has a list of these.)

Files with .?q? filenames are "squeezed" (a very old form of compression).
?z? files are "Crunched" (Names ending with AZM might be either crunched, or
written for the Z80MR assembler).
A newer form of file compression is produced by a program called CRLZH, and
has file names ending with .?Y? .
Any of these types of files can be placed inside a LBR file.  There are a
few different programs to extract them.  My favorite is LT30.

Bill Marcum  bmarcum@world.std.com