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From: djlinse@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dennis Linse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compression programs (a comparison)...
Summary: MacCompress 3.0
Keywords: arc zoo zip dwc compression pk
Message-ID: <6556@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 89 18:25:00 GMT
References: <20498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <13173@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: djlinse@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dennis Linse)
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In article <13173@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>	source	<============ avail for ==========>
>prog	avail?	DOS	UNIX	Amiga	Mac	VMS
>compress  Y	S	Y	Y	-	S
>pkarc	  N	Y	1	1	-	-
>Y - yes
>N - no
>S - somewhat, not fully functional
>1 - squashed format uncompress available in modified ARC

There is a compress compatible program for the Mac called (amazingly
enough) MacCompress 3.0.  (I believe that it is close to the lastest
version.)  It encode and decode in unix compress format.  It also has a
Mac specific format. 

There is also a program called arcmac (or something like that) which can
extract pkarc files (and maybe more, but that is all I have tried).

Dennis
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