Well, Jim, I don't know "most people" are about, but in this case I
really would like the decompressor.  What motivated all this was a
lack of space on my Hard Drive where none of the off-the-shelf
compressors could save enough space.  The fractal compressor I wrote
was perfect (and I could prove its correctness too).  I was able to
squeeze down several Gigabytes of data to fix my space issues for now.

The files in question are a lot of personal correspondance, research,
and coursework archives.  It's nothing terribly critical, but still
it's stuff I've saved for years and which I'd really like to get back :
(.  The decompressor must be out there, it *has* to be.  I don't know
what these other people you're talking about did, but no one will try
harder than I will to write it.

I'm very optimistic (I still have all the compressed files sitting
right here, the data is in them in some form), but I'll keep you guys
posted no matter what.  You deserve no less, I suppose.