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In article <6069@rosie.NeXT.COM> kbern@next.com (Keith Bernstein) writes:
> I downloaded some mac fonts from an FTP site.  They all have extensions  
> *.cpt.hqx.  I've been told I need "CompactPro" to uncompress them, so I  
> got CompactPro, BUT IT'S COMPRESSED!!  I downloaded a file named:  
> compactpro1.33.sea.hqx from /mac/util/compression at ftp site:  
> mac.archive.umich.edu.  How am I supposed to get an uncompressed version  
> of CompactPro?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please post here  
> and/or e-mail me.  Thanks.
> 
> K.B.

Thanks to all responders.  I also found an uncompressed ComactPro on the  
Mac here, so I'm up and running!

Responses follow (for others in same boat)...

In comp.sys.mac.apps you write:

>I downloaded some mac fonts from an FTP site.  They all have extensions  
>*.cpt.hqx.  I've been told I need "CompactPro" to uncompress them, so I  
>got CompactPro, BUT IT'S COMPRESSED!!  I downloaded a file named:  
>compactpro1.33.sea.hqx from /mac/util/compression at ftp site:  
>mac.archive.umich.edu.  How am I supposed to get an uncompressed version  
>of CompactPro?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Please post here  
>and/or e-mail me.  Thanks.

The .hqx means it's BinHexed (you probably know that already). The .sea  
before
that means that after you un-Bin-Hex it, you should get a self-extracting
archive. Just double-click on it and let it run, you'll end up with the
uncompressed CompactPro.

Nick


It's not compressed; it's binhexed.  If you have either BinHex 4.0
(not 5.0) or any version of StuffIt beginning with v1.5, you only
need to unbinhex the file.  The ".sea" means that all you have to
do then is to double-click it and it will decompress itself.

 - Dave