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From: rock%warp@Sun.COM (Bill Petro)
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Subject: Re: unix compress and uncompress
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Date: 18 Jan 90 01:24:13 GMT
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folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:

>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?
>--


>Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)

This sounds like mcvert or xbin.  Mcvert will take a binhex file
and convert it to the *.sit file that it probably originally was.
Kermit or Zmodem would then allow downloading to your Mac where
StuffIt would unstuff it.


     Bill Petro  {decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax}!sun!Eng!rock
"UNIX for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"  Matthew 19:12