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Article #10080Re: unix compress and uncompress
From: Bill Petro
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 01:24
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 01:24
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folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>In article <7674@hubcap.clemson.edu> jcocon%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>>Does anyone have code for unix compress and uncompress?
>>Obviously I would like to shorten my download times on big text files.
>>Jim
>I once saw a program that would take a compress file and package it up so that
>it looked like a MacBinary Stuffit file. Stuffit does LZW compression, just
>like compress, so this could work. At the Mac end, you would use Stuffit to
>uncompress it. Unfortunately, the program didn't quite work for me...
>Anyone have any ideas on this?
>--
>Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
This sounds like mcvert or xbin. Mcvert will take a binhex file
and convert it to the *.sit file that it probably originally was.
Kermit or Zmodem would then allow downloading to your Mac where
StuffIt would unstuff it.
Bill Petro {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven" Matthew 19:12
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