GaS

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Name GaS
Ontology
Extension(s) .gas
Released ~1993

GaS is a file compression utility for DOS, developed by iNFiNiTY Software Productions (contact: Ricky Bhatti).

The only known version is 2.0.

The compressor is GAS-UP.EXE, and the decompressor is GAS-DOWN.EXE.

Discussion

The documentation says that GaS only supports text files, but in fact no such limitation seems to exist.

The decompression utility decompresses the file in-place, overwriting the compressed .GAS file. It then asks for a target filename, but has been seen to crash before it can rename the file.

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Unknown. It's not clear if identification of a GaS-compressed file from its contents is possible.

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