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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: uncompress on the Macs?
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Date: 20 Dec 90 20:36:13 GMT
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In article <1059@sppy00.UUCP>, jmv@sppy00.UUCP (J. Vickroy +1 614 764 4343) writes:
> Has anyone used MacCompress to uncompress UUCP news? I've tried it but it
> fails complaining about the "magic number".
> 
> Any help is appreciated....

Remember that the batched compressed news files coming down from UUCP
connections is in "cunbatch" mode (usually). Thus, you must first
remove the "#! cunbatch\012" from the beginning of this file. Secondly,
many news files are compressed at 12 bits instead of 16. Thus, you
would need to check this setting in MacCompress.

tim.