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From: bowden@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Michael L. Bowden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compression Source needed
Message-ID: <803@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 89 14:17:28 GMT
References: <1372@luth.sm.luth.se> <7081@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: bowden@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Michael L. Bowden)
Organization: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
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In article <7081@microsoft.UUCP> t-chrisk@microsoft.UUCP (Christopher Kinsmen) writes:
>Looking for source to the packing algorithm employed on .ZIP and .ARC files.
>Also for .SIT and .HQX files.  Thanks.
>

I would also be interested in this.  I have something laying around for
Stuffit files, but I'm really more interested in Binhex at the moment.
What I've seen on Macintosh archives are sources (in just about every
language you can think of) whose only purpose is to write an executable
(launchable...excuse me) file that unBinhexes .HQX files.  

What I'd like is something that can be run on a Vax (or PC, I'd be willing
to convert it for VMS) so that I can extract/examine documentation, and 
decide whether the item is worth downloading.