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From: news@blackbird.afit.af.mil (News System Account)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Unix '.Z' to Mac
Keywords: lempel-ziv, .Z -> MacCompress -> text
Message-ID: <1520@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Date: 20 Feb 90 23:28:38 GMT
References: <1376@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: rpugh@galaxy-43.UUCP (Robert D. Pugh)
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology; WPAFB, OH
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In article <1376@darkstar.ucsc.edu> haphip@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jeffq) writes:
>I have a rather large file on my home dir on a Unix computer, and when 
>compressed, it is very small.  I would like to DOWNLOAD it while it's 
>compressed and then de-compress it here on my Mac at home.  

There is a program at sumex in the info-mac.unix directory named 
MacCompress... (I think it is maccompress-30.hqx but I'm not sure)
that both 'compresses' and 'uncompresses' files. It has an option 
which decompresses a Unix text file into the Mac text file format 
(and vice-versa). The sumex file also includes documentation. I use 
MacCompress frequently for passing files to and from the Unix 
mainframe I use and I've never had any problems with it.

Bob Pugh