Date   : Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:29:04 GMT
From   : destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!ersys!davem@gumby.wisc.edu (Dave McCrady)
Subject: Re: files ending .?z?

pieterh@sci.kun.nl (Peter Herweijer) writes:

> In article <1992Jul20.035233.25400@nuchat.sccsi.com> abbadon@nuchat.sccsi.com
> >Ok, so it's been a while since I've used CP/M. I have a program
> >to extract .?q? files. What do you use to extract files with
> >.?z? extensions? I need this program to run under MS/DOS.
> 
> Programs ending with .?Z? are compressed using Crunch, a
> PD LZW-compressor for CP/M. I don't know of any MS-DOS software
> that can handle this format --- it certainly isn't compatible
> with any MS-DOS crunchers. There is also an LZH compressor
> called CRLZH; files compressed by this program can be recognized
> from their .?Y? extension. The best way I can think of to handle
> this is to get LT29.COM --- a utility that can decompress
> .?Q? .?Z? and .?Y? files and extract files from (NU)LU archives --
> and a CP/M emulator for MS-DOS. Both should be available
> from any good PD library that still carries CP/M software.
> 
>   - Peter Herweijer
> --
> neither do I                                       pieterh@sci.kun.nl

  There is a DOS utility that will handle this.  On Simtel:

PD1:<MSDOS.COMPRESS>UNCR-DOS.ARC Uncrunch CP/M `?Z?' crunched files
PD1:<MSDOS.COMPRESS>UNCR233.ARC  Uncrunch CP/M `?Z?' files on MSDOS w/wildcards

Dave McCrady              davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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