Compress.ARC

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From: Ronald Chan
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 05:42

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Well, people... I just downloaded compress.arc like everyone suggested.  I am
having problems getting it to run.

The program itself had a .prg extender, so I just run it... it just "hung." 
Then I renamed it to compres.ttp and passed "filename.ext" to it like it said
in the instructions.  It gave back "filename.ext.Z already exists; Not
overwritten." and just "hung" again.  Then I chopped off the extender and
passed just "filename" and no messages... just hung there.  I assume it crashed
since the file was only 900 bytes, and I could not even get a keyclick... a
sure sign of a crash.

Then I thought it might be NeoDesk and went back to regular desktop.  Same
thing happened.

Then I chucked the GEM altogether and tried a CLI (PCommand.prg) and typed the
command "compress filename.ext" and the same thing happened.

Is this an old version?  Should I be getting compress LZH or ZOO?


|| Ronald Chan [rchan@terapin.com]
|| A Pocket Knight  *-{-----------

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From: rchan@terapin.com (Ronald Chan)
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Date: 1 Jan 93 05:42:56 GMT
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