Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.comm:2612 comp.sys.mac.misc:8777 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!liuida!isy!ingemar From: ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: converting xxx.Z files on the mac. Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 07:16:52 GMT References: <8bjkcly00WB64_r1Mx@andrew.cmu.edu> <146582@tiger.oxy.edu> <1991Feb20.211025.2785@lescsse.uucp> Sender: news@isy.liu.se (Lord of the News) Organization: Dept of EE, University of Linkoping Lines: 38 gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris) writes: >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. I once used MacCompress to compress some MacPaint files. When I wanted them again, I had forgotten what settings I had been using. No, no, MacCompress won't remember that for you... It took a few tries to get it back, and then the files didn't get the right file type, so I had to correct each file back to "MPNT"/"PNTG" by hand. (Was that the problem you thought about, with "applications"?) Last time I use MacCompress for anything but uncompressing text files! As far as I remember, it does not have very good compression either. Of course, text files are quite easy to compress by 50%. -- Ingemar Ragnemalm Dept. of Electrical Engineering ...!uunet!mcvax!enea!rainier!ingemar .. University of Linkoping, Sweden ingemar@isy.liu.se