Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.comm:2880 comp.sys.mac.misc:9538 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!lescsse!gamorris 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: <1991Feb27.203130.1156@lescsse.uucp> Date: 27 Feb 91 20:31:30 GMT References: <8bjkcly00WB64_r1Mx@andrew.cmu.edu> <146582@tiger.oxy.edu> <1991Feb20.211025.2785@lescsse.uucp> Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Lines: 25 In ingemar@isy.liu.se (Ingemar Ragnemalm) writes: >gamorris@lescsse.uucp (Gary A. Morris) writes: >>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"?) No, it turns out the problem uncompressing applications was not the fault of MacCompress at all but was caused by Gatekeeper not allowing it do the operations it needed to recreate the application file. Adding it to Gatekeepers permission list solved the problem. --GaryM -- Gary Morris Internet: gmorris@nasamail.nasa.gov Lockheed, Houston, Texas UUCP: lobster!lescsse!gamorris N5QWC/W5RRR Phone: +1 713 283 5195