Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Compression Source needed Message-ID: <1154@unocss.UUCP> Date: 27 Jul 89 15:41:48 GMT References: <26662@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Lines: 30 From article <26662@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth): > In article <803@gumby.cc.wmich.edu> bowden@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Michael L. Bowden) writes: >>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. >> >>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. > > I'm rather confused by who wants what here. A reasonably full > implementation of arc (arc521) is available in source for **IX systems. I think they're looking to un-Stuff Mac files, but the problem is, most Mac archive sites BinHex their files after Stuffing them (so that they are 7-bit, and can be transmitted across ASCII ftp connections). I have unStuff source (try sumex-aim.stanford.edu or wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) but unBinHex has eluded me also. If anyone knows where it is, please post! Also, warning: Many Stuffit archives come with WORD/MACA (MacWrite) docs, which are readable by all major Mac word processors, but not by a PC or a VAX. (At least, I have never seen a program to decode the suckers.) Some, however, do come with standard TEXT documentation (from MacWrite or PowerEdit). --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska