Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sppy00!jmv From: jmv@sppy00.UUCP (J. Vickroy +1 614 764 4343) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: uncompress on the Macs? Message-ID: <1059@sppy00.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 90 20:27:06 GMT References: <1990Dec18.175616.19884@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: jmv@sppy00.UUCP (J. Vickroy +1 614 764 4343) Distribution: usa Organization: Online Computer Library Center, Dublin, Ohio. Lines: 21 In article <1990Dec18.175616.19884@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Lanett) writes: =>hhchou@nell.cs.umd.edu (Hui-Hsien Chou) writes: => =>>I just wondering is there an "uncompress" program on Mac which can =>>uncompress those files down load from the Unix system with the .Z =>>tail, i.e., they are compressed by the "compress" program in Unix. => =>Try MacCompress, at sumex in info-mac/util. Has anyone used MacCompress to uncompress UUCP news? I've tried it but it fails complaining about the "magic number". Any help is appreciated.... jim --- Jim Vickroy | Voice: +1 614 764 4343 Telecommunications Systems Engineering | Internet: jmv@rsch.oclc.org Online Computer Library Center, Inc. | uucp: osu-cis!sppy00!jmv 6565 Frantz Road, Dublin Ohio, 43017-0702 | CompuServe: 73777,662