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From: rht@smsdpg.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: unix compress and uncompress
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Date: 22 Jan 90 13:31:00 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

There is a PD/ShareWare version of Compress for the Mac called,
of all things, MacCompress. I believe that it is available from
the sumex-aim archives as well as the listserver at rice 
(LISTSERV@icsa.rice.edu). I am not sure of the filename on sumex
as I dont have ftp access, but the name on rice is:

	UTIL/MACCOMPRESS-32.HQX

I have used this util with success downloading from a Sun 3 to a 
[Mac II | Mac IIx | SE | SE/30 ]. The only problem that I have
had with it is that sometimes the get corrupted when created on 
the Mac. I have never had problems extracting an archive created
on the Sun.

Another alternative is to use zoo on the *nix system. There is a
util called MacBooz (ver 2.0) that will extract zoo archives. It 
does not appear to be available from rice or sumex, but I could 
be persuaded to mail it out or post it (depending on response).

Hope this helps,
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