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Re: Mac/IBM text compression?

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From: Matthew T. Russotto
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 1990 20:30
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In article <41855@apple.Apple.COM> anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes:
>
>My question is...is there an application for the Mac that can
>compress text files into a format that is easily de-compressed
>by a PC? (.ARC format?) I know nothing about PCs, so I have
>no idea what's available to them.

I believe the 'Compress' program is available to Macs, PCs, and everything
else in the free world...  I think the name of the mac program is MacCompress
and can be found at info-mac/utils at sumex-aim.stanford.edu.  The
PC program I'm not sure about (but it's probably compress.exe....)
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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac/IBM text compression?
Keywords: Mac,IBM,text,compression
Message-ID: <1990Jun11.203015.15318@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 90 20:30:15 GMT
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