Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!unix!mxmora From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard Message-ID: <22512@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 22 Mar 91 19:20:37 GMT References: <6008@crystal9.UUCP> <1991Mar21.122414.9728@gorm.ruc.dk> Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) Distribution: comp Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 28 In article eck@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hangnail Whipperwill) writes: > > Just a note about MacCompress...it's not exactly the most reliable >program. I can't get it to work with compressed files over 20K or so. >I tried upping the RAM, and instead of crashing on >20K files, it >produces output files on the order of five megs in size(!) And the >author has moved on to bigger and better things... Isn't the author of MacCompress Llyod Chambers? He's the one that wrote DiskDoubler. Maybe DiskDoubler uses the same compression as does MacCompress. but I doubt it. Maybe Lloyd has fixed maccompress. You can talk to him on AOL. His address is Lchambers i believe. Matt -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora | my Mac Matt_Mora@sri.com SRI International | my unix mxmora@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________