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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Compress Utilties for MAC Transfer Wanted
Keywords: MACIntosh, compress, packit, stuffit
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Date: 8 Dec 89 21:11:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: artp@motbos.UUCP (Art Parmet)

In article <626@motbos.UUCP>, artp@motbos (Art Parmet) writes:
>Does anyone have the MAC applications packit and/or stuffit ported to
>System V ?  Alternatively, compress4.0 ported to the MAC would be
>acceptable.

MacCompress will do what you want.  I run compress on everything I
download, then uncompress a whole folder on the Mac.  Saves loads of
download time.

It'll also compress regular Mac files, resource forks and all.  Works
better than Stuffit (since you can run it in the background); in fact,
I've taken to using it as an archiving tool instead of Stuffit, since
a folder full of compressed files is easier to deal with than a
Stuffit archive.

I think v3.2 is the most current version.  It should be on all the
major BBS systems, though I don't know about FTP.

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