Do you have CSM from Solution Soft or some other similar utility?  If
     so, then I believe that may be your problem.   I believe that this
     file was compressed with some type of file compression utility.

     If you have CSM from Solution Soft (I am not familiar with other
     products so I can not make any suggestions dealing with those
     products) then you should be able to decompress the file from within
     CSM.   Also, you may want to check with your System Admin (unless that
     is you) to see if you have/want to autodecompression turned on.

     If you don't have any type of file compression utility then I don't
     have any idea as to what is going on.

     I hope this helps,

     Barry Durand
     Allegro Consultants



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Subject: Compressed and/or Migrated files ??
Author:  [log in to unmask]
Date:    8/11/99 3:17 PM


I have several files on my system that I can't print (or purge w/MPEX).
What is a compressed file?  How can I change these files back to normal?

What is that little 'c' next to FA?

Info listed below:

:LISTF BPBBB,2

FILENAME  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------
                  SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B
BPBBB        76B cFA          91       1023   3       16  1  8

:PRINT BPBBB
                      ^
COULD NOT OPEN A COMPRESSED OR MIGRATED FILE (FSERR 518)
The PRINT command failed. (CIERR 9080)
:MPEX
MPEX/3000  27N80324  (c) VESOFT Inc, 1980  5.5  03:04391  For help type
'HELP'

%PURGE BPBBB
OK to process BPBBB.PUB (code "", type FA, eof 91) (y/N)? Y
-----Will purge BPBBB.PUB (code "", type FA, EOF 91, 16 sectors)
16 sectors will be saved
OK to purge 1 file (y/N)? Y
-----Purging BPBBB.PUB (16 sectors)
COULD NOT OPEN A COMPRESSED OR MIGRATED FILE (FSERR 518)
Unable to purge file "BPBBB.PUB". (CIERR 384)
%

Any info appreciated, Jeff S.