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From: wcarroll@encore.com (Mr. New Dad)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: WANTED: Mac Compression Formats!
Message-ID: <131516@jake.encore.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 16:46:00 GMT
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From thom@sea.ieee.org (Thom Henderson):
> 
>  # Self-Extracting Archive (SEA) 
> 
> In that one case on a PC, just run the thing.  Or use ARC or XARC on it.  

Uh, if it is a Mac SEA, it will be Mac (ie., 68000) code. I doubt it
will run very well on a PC.

And it was my impression that Compactor (now known as Compact Pro) uses
a proprietary compression format(algorithm?), so if it is a compactor
archive or sea, standard programs like ARC or XARC probably won't do
very much with it.


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