Hi Paul,
         I'm in trouble with this cunbatch line.

  What I have is...

1.  A DOS compress.exe out of a gateway program called gigo that has
    been hacked (poorly) to handle the cunbatch line on decompressing,
    and add it on compression. It doesn't actually add it.

    This decompresses the files you send me beautifully. 

2.  I have a DOS version of gzip (06/25/93) that decompresses gnuzip,
    zip and compress automatically. This was before the hoohar over
    the license of Lempel-Ziv. And it works! I can feed it with those
    files and it deompresses them perfectly... but it does not handle
    the cunbatch line.

  This is where it gets a bit strange.

  If I remove the cunbatch line *both* my gzip and compress.exe say it
is a stuffed file. If I compress a file using my compress (without
the cunbatch line), then both gzip and compress handle it.

  I have tried removing the cunbatch line several ways. First I just
took it out leaving the file shorter, then I overwrote it with 0x00,
0x20 and 0xFF. Nothing works.

  This must mean that the cunbatch line is added in a sneaky way...
*inside* the compressor. Something about the rest of the file knows it
should be there. 

  Do you have any information on how the cunbathc line is added, or
any idea where I could find out? Any suggestions on how I can remove
it to leave the file intact?

Regards,
Bob
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