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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/15
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"Marin D. Condic" wrote:

> What part of "I can't guarantee that the file will be on UNIX"
> are you not hearing?
> What part of "Its a political issue - not a technical issue"
> is not getting through here?
> I really don't see how much more plain I can make it.
> I keep saying that the answer
> *MUST BE* one that is built into the program
> and can't be any sort of shell script
> or temporary file or pipe anything of the sort.
> Yet you keep coming back with that response.
> Are you just trying to bait me?
>
> I am not some kind of inexperienced,
> wet-behind-the-ears fresh-out
> who is having his chain jerked by his superiors
> to see if he can figure it out.
> I am not being sent on a snipe hunt
> nor being asked to find a left-handed smoke bender.
> The problem here is very specific
> and I have tried to outline precisely what my need is.
> If you have some information that will help me out here,
> I'd appreciate it.
> But the answer has to be some sort of package
> that does basically what Win32.LZExpand does.
> If you know of something like this, please pass that info along.

I used mu GoTo search engine to search for

    +Windows +compress +uncompress

and I found

    http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/misc/software.html