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Miscrosoft compress.exe v1.11

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Jim Carter

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Feb 7, 2009, 12:50:01 PM2/7/09
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Hi folks,
My request is very simple. I'm trying to find a copy of
the old and obscure Microsoft compress.exe v1.11 which can do
Steven Zeck's original SZ compression.

Hoping for some help,
Jim Carter

Phil Carmody

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Feb 7, 2009, 5:38:57 PM2/7/09
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Jim Carter <gen...@emr.net> writes:
> Hi folks,
> My request is very simple. I'm trying to find a copy of
> the old and obscure Microsoft compress.exe v1.11 which can do
> Steven Zeck's original SZ compression.

Do you know what version of MS-DOS it came with. There are
archives of old versions of obsolete OSes online, including
most versions of DOS and Windows.

Phil
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Jim Carter

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Feb 7, 2009, 7:26:51 PM2/7/09
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Phil Carmody wrote:
>
> Jim Carter <gen...@emr.net> writes:
> > Hi folks,
> > My request is very simple. I'm trying to find a copy of
> > the old and obscure Microsoft compress.exe v1.11 which can do
> > Steven Zeck's original SZ compression.
>
> Do you know what version of MS-DOS it came with. There are
> archives of old versions of obsolete OSes online, including
> most versions of DOS and Windows.
>
> Phil
> --

It never was a part of any DOS. I've spent days researching all that.
If anything, it may have come with some long dead MS SDK. The only
hope now is finding someone who magically happens to have a copy...
or maybe an MS ex-employee, or maybe the author(s). This group is
probably my best shot at such.

Before someone mentions my redundant orig posts, I'm sorry. Mu news
client and I wern't communicating very well. :)

Jim

Quidam

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Feb 8, 2009, 4:00:36 AM2/8/09
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try here.

http://www.kyzer.me.uk/pack/xfd/xfd_SZDD.lha

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Jim Carter

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Feb 8, 2009, 9:06:51 AM2/8/09
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> "Jim Carter" <gen...@emr.net> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 498DC9...@emr.net...
> > Hi folks,
> > My request is very simple. I'm trying to find a copy of
> > the old and obscure Microsoft compress.exe v1.11 which can do
> > Steven Zeck's original SZ compression.
> >
> > Hoping for some help,
> > Jim Carter

Quidam wrote:
>
> try here.
>
> http://www.kyzer.me.uk/pack/xfd/xfd_SZDD.lha
>

Thank you, but I knew about that one. SZDD is very different from
the older simpler SZ, the one I need. SZDD is quite common now...
(compress-v2.0 / expand), but SZ (compress-v1.11 / unpack) is not.
But again, thank you for answering!

Jim Carter

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