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

BL> This decompresses the files you send me beautifully. 

My suggestion is:

1. I'll only send you compressed files for now.

2. Don't send me compressed files for now.

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

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

No, you should delete the whole cunbatch line, including the newline
character which I believe is there, and leave the file shorter.

BFN.  Paul.
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