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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: Mac fonts to GDOS
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Date: 12 Jan 89 03:33:49 GMT
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In article <695@stag.UUCP> to_stdnet@stag.UUCP writes:
>[hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) wrote...]
>> There's no Mac ARC, (and never will be, most likely) so you can't just
>
>  Wrong...  (Why do people assume something doesn't (and "never will")
>exist just because they haven't heard about it yet...?)
>
>  1)  Arc for the Mac does exist...!  You CAN "just arc things up and
>send one big file".  It works just fine.  I don't have a copy but I've
>seen a friend use it on his Mac to arc and unarc stuff for/from a non-
>Mac BBS system.

Well well... In fact, I have a copy of MacArc 0.3 (or thereabouts.) All
it does is extraction. My source never did come up with a 1.0 release
that did all the compression as well, so I naively assumed it didn't
exist. Mea culpa. (Hey, we've had this 0.3 copy for over 2 years and
heard nothing from the author ever since. It was a natural assumption,
particularly with the rapid acceptance of Stuffit...)
>
>  2)  If you packed all your fonts into a Mac style .pit archive, there is
>a program for the ST called UNPIT.TTP that will extract the fonts for you.
>I've used this for getting stuff from a Mac BBS.

Hm. Packit went through about 3 major revisions as I recall, not all of
which were compatible. But, it's worth a try, I guess. It didn't occur
to me because Stuffit just completely overtook the Mac scene here at UM.
Meanwhile.... Back to hacking.
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