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Its user interface was designed to imitate those of ARC, PKARC, LHA , and (early versions of) PKZIP . After presenting a convincing display of compressing files, including a progress meter as "compression" was occurring, NABOB would create "archive" files containing solely a single character, character code 1 (which would display as a smiley face character when the file contents were displayed on IBM PC systems).

In another swipe at the marketing of compression tools at the time, where utilities capable only of uncompression would be distributed freely and the concomitant compression utilities would require payment (c.f. RAR/UNRAR, PKZIP/PKUNZIP), NABOB was distributed as "compress only" tool.


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