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From: rterry@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: .cpt format?
Message-ID: <107990004@hpcuhc.cup.hp.com>
Date: 24 Oct 90 14:53:10 GMT
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> I recently downloaded a game called solarian from sumex at stanford
> and instead of being in stuffit format it is in .cpt, is this a new 
> archiving program?

".cpt" means that it is a Compactor archive.  Compactor is the new(er) 
shareware compression utility that seems to be taking over from StuffIt.
It does a better job of compression than StuffIt and/or StuffIt Deluxe.

Ray