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Article #7995Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard
From: Ralph P Carpenter
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 19:41
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 19:41
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In article <ECK.91Mar22075025@eniac.seas.upenn.edu> eck@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hangnail Whipperwill) writes: > > 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 use MacCompress 3.2 almost daily to offload files from this Un*x machine. This morning I decompressed four files of 700k, 500k, 300k, and 200k without a hitch. I've never had a problem with it (on a IIsi 5/80 under Finder). -- | Ralph P Carpenter | InterNet: Ralpho@acc.fau.edu | Blake's 7: | | Sr Programmer/Analyst | Bitnet: Ralpho@FauVax | The | | Florida Atlantic Univ | Ci$: 74015,644 GEnie: Ralpho | Motion | | at Boca Raton | Vox: 407/367-2616 Fax: -2749 | Picture |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!cs.fau.edu!ralpho From: ralpho@cs.fau.edu (Ralph P Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard Message-ID: <1991Mar24.194111.9525@cs.fau.edu> Date: 24 Mar 91 19:41:11 GMT References: <1991Mar21.122414.9728@gorm.ruc.dk> <ECK.91Mar22075025@eniac.seas.upenn.edu> <22512@unix.SRI.COM> Reply-To: ralpho@acc.fau.edu (Ralph P Carpenter) Distribution: comp Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton Lines: 20