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*sea files uncompress easy Re: HELP! Can't get "CompactPro"

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From: Michael Dautermann
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:55
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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.

  
the *sea.hqx extension means that Compact Pro is compressed in a 
SELF EXTRACTING ARCHIVE format.  That means that after you debinhex it,
all you need to do is click on the file.  It will automatically unarchive.

Hope that helps....



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From: myke@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Michael Dautermann)
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Subject: *sea files uncompress easy Re: HELP! Can't get "CompactPro"
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Keywords: sea, self, extracting, archives, ftp, shareware