Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!orion.arc.nasa.gov!ogawa From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: PROPOSAL - Archive Standard Message-ID: <1991Mar24.031001.20155@news.arc.nasa.gov> Date: 24 Mar 91 03:10:01 GMT References: <1991Mar21.122414.9728@gorm.ruc.dk> Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov (USENET Administration) Distribution: comp Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 14 Bcc: ogawa 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... I, too have had my difficulties with this freeware program. Does anyone know of a commercial Mac app that will decompress Unix compress'ed files? Note that bigger and better in this case means DiskDoubler.... Arthur Ogawa Internet: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov Ph: 1/415/691-1126 TeX consultant AppleLink: ogawa FAX:1/415/962-1969