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From: jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
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Subject: Re: unix compress and uncompress
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Date: 18 Jan 90 18:03:26 GMT
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In article <6492@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> gkd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Keith Miyake) writes:
>I have a copy of MacCompress (which is free, but not in the public domain).
>MacCompress can decompress files which have been compressed using the UNIX
>compress command.  It also has an option to change CR/LF when compressing/
>decompressing.
>
>I think that the file can be found at sumex.
>
>I've used it a few times for downloading text files and it works well.

I, too, have used MacCompress.  It is very good, I have had no problems
with it.

In fact, the way I transfer files from my account on a unix host is to tar
and compress the files, download them to my SE/030, and untar and uncompress
them.

MacCompress is available at Sumex, file info-mac/util/maccompress-32.hqx.

If anyone is interested, I believe that I got tar for the Mac from Sumex
as well.

Cheers,

  --Jerry

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