CS656@OUACCVMB.BITNET (11/01/87)
Date: 31 October 1987, 19:50:56 EDT From: Bob Church CS656 at OUACCVMB To: APPLES-L INFO-APP at BRL I am sending PROPACK to the APPLE2-L LIST. It's a very nice PD program which compresses a disk into a prodos file. It works on the entire disk and doesn't care if it's CMP PASCAL, or Dos 3.3, as well as PRODOS of course. I got it from the LLS board. The new file is about 2/3 the size of the original. You can store the new file in a prodos directory or send it xmodem. I have compressed disks containing several types of files and then "reconstituted" the packed file onto a blank disk. EXTRA K, the beagle bros compare program, couldn't tell the new disk from the original. It's a small program and I've sent it in EXEC form. No unsqueezing etc required.