Squeeze It

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File Format
Name Squeeze It
Ontology
Extension(s) .sqz
Released Possibly 1992[1]
See Squeeze for formats with similar names.
"Squeeze", an unrelated program by Sven Ritter, had a drag-and-drop feature that used the label "Squeeze It". See SQX.

Squeeze It, sometimes shortened to SQZ, is an early-1990s archival/compression program for DOS, written by Jonas I. Hammarberg[2]. It creates files with the extension ".sqz" (".SQZ" with DOS naming conventions). It was a minor contender in the "archiver wars"[3] of the 1980s and 1990s.

Contents

Identification

Squeeze It archives start with ASCII HLSQZ.[4]

Specifications

Software

  • Squeeze It (DOS binaries)
    • v1.08.1 (1992-08-22)
    • v1.08.2 (1992-09-11)
    • v1.08.3 (1993-01-24) (executable that, when run, extracts from itself the actual Squeeze It utility, as well as documentation and a sample file)
    • v1.08.3 - In a ZIP file
    • v1.08.4α (1993-05-19?)
  • LGAVIEW - Multi-format extractor for DOS

References

  1. Earliest version listed in http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → WHATSNEW.DOC
  2. http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → SQZ.DOC
  3. Name from http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/2all210.zip → 2ALL.DOC
  4. http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/sqz1083e.exe → TECH.ENG
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