        CAUTION FOR SALAMANDERS USERS

When compressing a number of files together into one file using HELBENDR,
do not put an extension on the filename from the prompt. |After you
have observed HELBENDR to terminate by its beep and its clearing the
screen, then you can add the extension safely. For an ununknown reason,
some machines will loose the file if the extension is appended to
the filename during the run. Decompression with MUDPUPPY has no problem
with extensions.
Since HELBENDR erases the files as it incorperates them into the
compressed file, you should back them up by copying them elsewhere
as in "copy wasp????.bas wasp????.box" to be safe.
The only time to ignore this precaution is if your hard drive is
nearly full, you have no space or place to copy the backups, and you
can't do anything with your machine without clearing something off
your hard drive,  and you would like to save it somehow. Saving it
with HELBENDR beats erasing it, will erase it anyway if it fails,
rarely fails, but fails if it runs out of space on the disk, but is
designed to require very little  space in which to operate. Other
compression packages require as much space as 2n of n equally sized
files in which to operate. SaALAMANDERS (MUDPUPPY and HELBENDRzzzzzzzzz)
require 3 times the size of 1 file and 4/n the time it would require
if it did all the appending before comressing. Instead of inter mixing
compression and appending.


      BULLETIN

As of 29 March 2000, am writing to announce that the reason for the
afore-mentioned problem requiring users to rename a file to give it
an extension ony after running HELBENDER is due tothe occasional user-generated
error that occurs if you accidentally mistype and hafe a name more
than 8 characters long. If you don't mistype you can enter your final
file names from the first prompt in HELBENDR.

THIS CURENT UPGRADED version is corrected for Y2K, the earlier versions
aren't.

Your will probably loose the time if you run the eralier versions
after 1 January 2000. Dut to illness I couldn't send the upgrade uhtil
now, and had been assured, incorectly that it had been submitted for
me.

the curent version looses about 1/86 of a second every timne you
decompress a file, the next upgrade will correct this problem. This
version also runs out of STRING space when the STRINGs in the compressed
file esceed 64 K, even though before thaen they may represent 20 times
tht ammount of information. This will aslo be corrected in the next
upgrade. Due to my departure for SURGERY and a risk of loosing the
ue of my left hand (termperarily or pernanently) i am submitting wht
I have right now).

I will still get help from time to time if the hand doesn't recover.

Please contact me, for questions, (onstructions in README.1ST).
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