Re: Weird file types -how to use them

["Stephen Mitchell" <ssmitch@erols.com>]

Carson Wilson's CFX.EXE, which is fairly widely available on the web, runs
under MSDOS or in a DOS window (I'm using it on Pentium III running Windows
XP) and will uncompress squeezed (*.?Q?) files as well as crunched (*.?Z?)
files and will also extract compressed or uncompressed files from a library
(*.LBR) file.  It's a must-have tool for dealing with CP/M files.

Stephen Mitchell
Alexandria, Virginia

"Charles Richmond" <richmond@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> Ernest wrote:
> >
> > I have a box of Basis 108 user group montly swap disks that are in CPM
> > format. Most of the files on these disks are in what I'm guessing is a
> > compressed state but I'm not sure of how to use them. Here is an
example:
> >
> > B.U.G. SWAP DISK 4.1 (MARCH 1987)
> >
> > side 1
> >
> > $$README.1ST
> > HARDWARE.QQQ
> > NOTICES.QQQ
> > $VER---4.1
> > LIBRARY.IQF
> > SOFTWARE.QQQ
> > APPLEPIE.CQT
> > MEMBERS.LQR
> > ORDER.FRM
> > CPM.CQT
> > MEMBERS.PQN
> > DIREC.COM
> >
> These files are in "squeeze" format. The "squeeze" program
> (SQ.COM on CP/M IIRC) compresses the file, and changes the
> middle letter of the extension to "Q". The original letter
> is saved in the file somewhere, and will be restored when
> the file is "unsqueezed". (using UNSQ.COM on CP/M IIRC).
>
> I have some C source for converting these files, but you
> will probably have to compile it on a PC or Linux box to
> make it work.
>
> If you have a copy of the Walnut Hill CP/M CDROM, it will
> surely have implementations of SQ.COM and UNSQ.COM.
>
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