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Article #10425Re: Compactor format? Help needed.
From: Patrick Hoepfner
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 03:05
Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 03:05
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rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) writes:
>What is Compactor format? Does anyone have a formal specification for it?
>I'm on a Unix machine, and would prefer to uncompactify them without
>moving them to a Mac. If I know the format, I can write my own
>uncompaction program.
Robert,
I don't know why you want to uncompress them on the unix box, they can't
be used there and the download (usually takes longer than uncompressing)
will take longer. And then there is the problem of possibly loosing a
piece of the archive (or at least having a lot of ReadMe files and not
knowing what it goes with and the problem of overwriting files of the same
name).
I refrain from unarchiving my files until I get them to the Mac. I do
un-BinHex files on my unix box tho...
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