Re: Unable to unzip GAWK ??

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From: macrides
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:28

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In article <9558790@MVB.SAIC.COM>, Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard) writes:
>[...]
> I announced some time ago my intention to post large submissions in a
> compressed format.  ZIP was chosen because it not only maintains the VMS file
> attributes but had by far the better compression capability.  Any compressed
> posting requires only UNZIP v5.0 and any version of MFTU in order to unpack.
>[...]
> Mark Berryman
> Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com
> vmsnet.sources moderator

	Version 8+ levels of VMS_SHARE can encode binary files.  GAWK.ZIP is
1145 blocks, and GAWK.MFTU is 1694 blocks.  Why was the MFTUing done, i.e.,
did it do something that's desirable despite the increase in size?

				Fote

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Subject: Re: Unable to unzip GAWK ??
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