https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1913&p=29539#p29539
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Monday, 20 March 2006, 12:41 AM


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The Poser 6 and Poser 6 compression format is the defacto standard unix gzip format.  In unix a file named foo.obj when compressed with this command:

[b]gzip -9 foo.obj[/b]

Will be replaced with the compressed version called foo.obj.gz  for compatibility with the dos "8.3" file name format foo.obj become foo.obz

You may already have a Dos/Windows command line program to uncompress it.  Search you harddrive for gzip.exe.  Also many other compression software knows how to deal with gzip files.  If you have one installed, you can uncompress your  compressed Poser files with it, but telling the software that the file is a gzip file.

If you have access to Linux or any unix you most likely already have gzip installed.

Or you can go to [url=http://www.gzip.org/]The gzip home page

Note, before I upgraded to Poser 5, I heard many questions and incorrect statements about Poser file compression.  I had reason to believe that the compression format was gzip, but I was mislead by someone who claimed they had tested that and found it to be not true, misleading many others at the same time.

I often use the unix program midnight commander as a file browser, on the day I first installed Poser 5, I looked through the new runtime with midnight commander and had forgotten about the compressed files.  Midnight Commander detected the files as being gziped and uncompressed them on the fly for viewing.  About an hour latter, I remembered about the compression, and confirmed that they are gziped.

Unix has a program called "file" that examines file contents and reports the file types.

Using file to examine the gzip tape archive of firefox reports:
[b]firefox-1.5.tar.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression[/b]

Using file to examine the Poser 5 version of Poser 4 Posette's character file:
[b]P4 Nude Woman.crz: gzip compressed data, was "C:Documents and Settingssrath", max compression[/b]

Note that the gzip format can contain various optional file metadata.  for firefox it contains the fact that it was compressed on a unix box.  FOr Posette's file it reports that the original uncompressed filename was srath and it was stored in "C:Documents and Settings" on the computer where it was compressed.


