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Re: Unix Uncompress Utility for the Macintosh?

#350
From: Ian J Pidd
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 13:51
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>I have uudecode and suntar for the Macintosh.  I now need a Mac utility
>that will uncompress (.Z) files that have been compressed using the unix
>compress program.  Does such a utility exist and if so where can I find
>it?
>
>Thanks ...
>
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Sorry for the previous message, XEDIT isn't quite a mac application!
A utility exists called MacCompress which uncompresses the files into a format
which is readable by BinHex or similar.
It is available from SUMEX in an uncompressed format.
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