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From: gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: converting xxx.Z files on the mac.
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.211025.2785@lescsse.uucp>
Date: 20 Feb 91 21:10:25 GMT
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In <146582@tiger.oxy.edu> schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) writes:
>in experementing with ftp, I have found some sites which encode 3 times,
>first with stufit(.sit) then binHex(.hqx) then compress from UNIX (.Z)

It's usually a waste of time to compress twice (once with Stuffit and once
with compress).

>I was wondering if I have to ftp from a unix machine, uncompress it and then
>ftp it to my mac or if there is a program that will let me uncompress
>it on my mac...

There is a MacCompress that will compress/uncompress Unix compress files.
It's available from various archives, such as the listserver at rice (I
don't have ftp, so that's where I get stuff).

I just used it yesterday to compress a 45M database (down to 21M) on my
Unix machine and then ftp it to my Mac where I uncompressed it.   It's
fast (much faster than Stuffit) though I have heard it has problems with
uncompressing Mac applications sometimes.

--GaryM
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