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Article #9851Re: unix compress and uncompress
From: Wayne Folta
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 01:02
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 01:02
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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)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!dftsrv!mimsy!tove.umd.edu!folta From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: unix compress and uncompress Message-ID: <21894@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 18 Jan 90 01:02:55 GMT References: <7674@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) Distribution: usa Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 15