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From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How do I decode .cpt files?
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.204829.19098@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 20:48:29 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <1991Apr16.183511.8768@milton.u.washington.edu> tvex@milton.u.washington.edu (t@vex) writes:
>In article <91106.125241JB3YRHMC@MIAMIU.BITNET> JB3YRHMC@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Braveman) writes:
>>I recently downloaded a file from an ftp site.  I sucessful debinhexed
>>it, but now I see that the file has a .cpt extension.  Obviously, this
>>is  niether stuffit or packit.  Any ideas about how to decode this
>>file.  Thanx.  Email is fine.
>
>The suffix is generated by a relatively new compression utility called
>Compactor. I believe it is a "commercial" product (as opposed to s/w) but
>am not sure and am therefore not sure where you might best obtain it.

Nope, it is shareware.  Binhexed form at sumex. Translates to
a self extracting archive.





-rich
Richard Sucgang : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
Columbia University (sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu; 
de slime god         rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)