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From: rterry@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Ray Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Uncompress for the Mac?
Message-ID: <101740003@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Jul 90 22:43:09 GMT
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> Is there an uncompress for the Mac around? I need to compress
> on Unix and then uncompress on a mac. As a side note, is x/y/zmodem
> faster than kermit for file transfers? If so, are these available
> for the unix side?

There is an app named MacCompress (the latest on my board is v3.2) that
does a very nice job of compressing/decompressing files and/or folders.

And, yes, x/y/zmodem (especially zmodem) is(are) faster than kermit for
file transfers.  The author of Zmodem, Chuck Forsberg (sp?), supports 
public domain Zmodem (et al) send/receive programs (C sources, Makefile) for 
Unix (BSD, SysV), VMS, Xenix, etc.  Its name is "rzsz" (for -r-eceive zmodem
and -s-end zmodem).  The latest version of rzsz is dated February 1990 and
includes v3.07 of sz.

Both the above are on GEnie, eventually on Sumex, currently available on
MacScience BBS (see sig), and many other places.

Hope that helps.

Ray

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