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From: wbell@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Warren Bell)
Date: Tue, 8-Mar-88 13:04:10 EST
Message-ID: <1988Mar8.130410.17242@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Stuffit file extractor program for Unix posted
References: <7178@oberon.USC.EDU> <1988Mar2.115040.11949@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <530@psu-cs.UUCP> <1051@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
Reply-To: wbell@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Warren Bell)
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In article <1051@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> km@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Ken Mitchum) writes:
>In article <530@psu-cs.UUCP> hoofb@psu-cs.UUCP (Bruce Hoof) writes:
>>YES!!!  It would be nice to have a Unix utility to .sit a file that we
>>could unstuff on our Mac.  I have often had the trouble of uploading
>>many files from my Mac to the vax and the same goes the other way.  This
>>would save many keystrokes and minutes, not to mention frustration!!!
>>This utility would especially be useful with seperate compilation.
>
>There already is a "tar" available for the mac, which works uses the same
>formats as the "tar" on Unix systems, and can be used to archive entire
>directories and subdirectories. It will work only with text files, however.
>It is much faster than Stuffit, as there is no file compaction - extracting
>a 1mb tar file of 60 - 70 files and two directories takes about 45 seconds
>on a MacII.


Well, the massive-of-filenames problem is solved by this, but it doesn't
do compression, which saves time (and money) in downloading. 
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