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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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Subject: Re: unix compress and uncompress
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Date: 18 Jan 90 01:02:55 GMT
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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?
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)