DN5@PSUVM.BITNET (D. Jay Newman) (04/29/88)
Through FTP I have access to a lot of sourcecode which is normally made for
unix systems. I need a version of the unix compress utility which can run
on a Mac to decompress this stuff. I don't need the compression at all, but
decompression now means that I have to email the compressed files to a unix
system, decompress them there, and send them back to my mainframe account,
then download them to my Mac. A lot of bits flying about!
I can accept email, can download from anonymous FTP, and will send disks by
pony express if need be.
D. Jay Newman
email: dn5 at psuvm (bitnet)
mail: Penn State
12 Willard Hall
University Park, PA 16802
phone: (814) 863-1654gz@spt.entity.com (Gail Zacharias) (05/01/88)
In article <40921DN5@PSUVM> DN5@PSUVM.BITNET (D. Jay Newman) writes: >I need a version of the unix compress utility which can run >on a Mac to decompress this stuff. I have posted (or actually will in about 5 minutes) to comp.sources.mac the sources for an MPW tool to do unix-compatible compression/decompression. You need MPW both to compile and to use this program. Included in the sources is a library that should make it very simple to add compression/decompression to just about any program which writes/reads files sequentially. Maybe somebody can take this library and wrap a stand-alone user interface around it. Since I have MPW, I can't quite get motivated to do that... -- gz@entity.com ...!mit-eddie!spt!gz Now let's all repeat the non-conformist oath.