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Paul Womar <Newsmaster@pwomar.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Larry Stoter <LPS@teknesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > A number of PC-based compression formats are accessible via Mac
> > applications. The commonest (?) PC format .ZIP can be unzipped by a a
> > sharware application called ZipIt, which will also zip files on the Mac
> > and handle binhex 4 and Macbinary. It will also segment large files.
> > ZipIt is available from the usual ftp sites.
> 
> Stuffit Expander (with Expander Enhancer) or Stuffit Deluxe will also
> unzip with no problems.  I've also found newser versions of ZipIt to be
> very unstable.

Stuffit Expander v4.01 (after you've installed DropStuff which is where
you get Expander Enhancer - v4.0 in my case) can't handle all .zip
files, and the bloody annoying thing will happily *delete* a .zip file
that it's tried to unzip and failed on if you've told it to `delete
after decompressing'.

I've not had any trouble with ZipIt 1.3.5 crashing on my Performa 475
running System 7.1 or 7.6.  It's less convenient than Stuffit Expander,
but it's always done the job.

The only common encoding/compression format that I know of that
StuffitExpander+EE can't handle is base 64 - YA-Base64 will deal with
this.

Rowland.


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