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Subject: Re: Help needed with .Z files
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In article <1991Apr15.114159.225@amc.uva.nl>, devries@amc.uva.nl writes...
>Can anybody help me to get a method to un-Z files on a Mac?
>I think I can un-tar but I can't test it before I can un-Z.
>Perhaps someone knows a Stuffit De Luxe Add-on?

No StuffIt Deluxe translator (yet), but there is an excellent
utility that handles unix compression:  MacCompress by Lloyd Chambers.
This freeware utility is available by anonymous ftp from sumex and
its mirror sites in the /info-mac/util directory.  

It's text compression is rather remarkable, by the way ... it routinely
achieves 70% compress vs about 55% for StuffIt Deluxe and Compact Pro.
Don't ask my why, but ...  the right tool for the right job, I guess?

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)