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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Compress
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.023655.8885@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 12 Mar 91 02:36:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.110812.22432@research.canon.oz.au>
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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graeme@research.canon.oz.au (Graeme Wong See) writes:


>Sorry if this is a common question but I don't usually read this group.
>Anyway is there the compatible equivalent of the PC archiving programs like
>PKARC, PKZIP etc on the MACs? I want to transfer some files over a network
>and the best way to save bandwidth would be to compress on the source machine
>and then decompress on the target machine.

There sure is. There's MacArc, ArcMac, MacLHArc, MacZoo, etc. I can also
recommend Compact Pro 1.3 or Stuffit 1.5.1.
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