See Appendix E-1 for more info. See Appendix E-5 for more info. This format made it easier for the moderator to distribute programs, but made it more difficult for users to extract and use these programs.
Some people still use ship.
Note that you cannot use older unzip programs, as old unzip programs do not understand the new compression formats. See the previous section for information on where to get source and binaries. A checksum is used to ensure that the decoding is correct. A copy of these programs are given in Appendix A-1, near the end of this file. Note however, that these functions aren't used much anymore.