haphip@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jeffq) (02/20/90)
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. The 'compress <filename> command uses Lempel-Ziv to compress the file then slaps a '.Z' on it. Are there any programsthat are specificially designed to un-pack lempel-ziv type files? Stuffit HAS Lempel-Ziv, but it doesn't recoginze the text file, and changing it to a SIT! format just crashes the system. Urg! If there is such a program, somebody MAIL it to me! Or at least tell me 'bout it. Thanks!
news@blackbird.afit.af.mil (News System Account) (02/21/90)
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