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From: barad@brand.UUCP (Herb Barad)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Program for unpacking PackIt files
Message-ID: <179@brand.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 13:09:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 13:09:39 1986
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References: <177@brand.UUCP> <478@tekig4.UUCP>
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In article <478@tekig4.UUCP> briand@tekig4Diehm.UUCP (Brian Diehm) writes:
>>I have just posted to net.sources.mac a program I call "unpit" that I've
>>been using since last fall on a 4.2BSD VAX to unpack the components of a
>>PackIt file into separate files.
>
>Funny, I could've just SWORN that PackIt was able to do this!  Amazing! :-)
>
>-Brian Diehm
>Tektronix, Inc.

If you would have LOOKED a little closer, you would have found out that
"unpit" unpacks files on UNIX, not on the Mac (as PackIt) does.  This
provides many advantages for those people who keep archives on their Vaxs.
Instead of having to upload the entire *.pit file, and then unpack it
(sometimes impossible or difficult due to disk space on Mac), you can upload
those files that you need.  Most PackIt files contain documentation as well
as the programs.  If you have "w2t", you can print out the documentation
without having to upload it to your mac, etc.

					Amazing! :-)



-- 
Herb Barad	[USC - Signal and Image Processing Institute]

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