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From: wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ulf Wostner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Can I unravel foo.tar.z ? Summary.
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Date: 1 Apr 91 09:32:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar30.110132.20903@agate.berkeley.edu>, I wrote ...
>Is there an application available (yet) for the Mac OS that can
>unravel a file of the form foo.tar.Z from a UNIX machine?

Yes indeed!

There is MacCompress 3.2 by Lloyd Chambers to uncompress a la Unix:
foo.tar.z -> foo.tar

Then there is Tar 2.0 to untar a la Unix, written by Craig Ruff
with excerpts from John Gilmore's public domain program:
foo.tar -> foo

Both programs are available by anonymous ftp:
sumex-aim.stanford.edu from the directory /info-mac/util

Other files of interest are in the /info-mac/unix-utilities
directory.

- "mcvert"  handles binhex **coding
- "sit" and "unsit" handle the popular "StuffIt" compression format.


Thanks for the helpful responses from

hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton)
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Bill Johnston)
ntg!dplatt@apple.com (Dave Platt)
time@ice.com (Tim Endres)

= Ulf (Olaf) Wostner
= Math Dept, CCSF 	"Never met a deadline I didn't like."
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