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Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard

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From: Arthur Ogawa
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 03:10
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In article <ECK.91Mar22075025@eniac.seas.upenn.edu> eck@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hangnail Whipperwill) writes:
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|   Just a note about MacCompress...it's not exactly the most reliable
|program.  I can't get it to work with compressed files over 20K or so.
|I tried upping the RAM, and instead of crashing on >20K files, it
|produces output files on the order of five megs in size(!)  And the
|author has moved on to bigger and better things...

I, too have had my difficulties with this freeware program. Does anyone
know of a commercial Mac app that will decompress Unix compress'ed files?
Note that bigger and better in this case means DiskDoubler....

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