[comp.sys.mac.misc] Uncompress for the Mac?

rlwald@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Robert L. Wald) (07/16/90)

  Is there an uncompress for the Mac around? I need to compress
on Unix and then uncompress on a mac. As a side note, is x/y/zmodem
faster than kermit for file transfers? If so, are these available
for the unix side?

Thanks


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hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) (07/16/90)

In article <1238@idunno.Princeton.EDU> rlwald@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Robert L. Wald) writes:
>
>  Is there an uncompress for the Mac around? I need to compress

You can ftp maccompress.sit from nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). It's in
pub/mac/arcers

>on Unix and then uncompress on a mac. As a side note, is x/y/zmodem
>faster than kermit for file transfers? If so, are these available
>for the unix side?

Yes. ftp it from chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) It's in pc/comm and
called rzszv307.lzh (lharc package)

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dankg@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) (07/17/90)

In article <1238@idunno.Princeton.EDU>,
rlwald@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Robert L. Wald) said:
>
>  Is there an uncompress for the Mac around? I need to compress
>on Unix and then uncompress on a mac. As a side note, is x/y/zmodem
>faster than kermit for file transfers? If so, are these available
>for the unix side?

	Yes there is:  It's called MacCompress.  Current version is
3.2 and it's available via anon ftp to you-know-it sumex-aim.stanford.edu.
check out info-mac/util section.  But Unix compress has a problem
compressing MacBinary format but it does its job:  At least text is fine.
I'd prefer arc/zip because you have to tar and compress if you need
to archive, not only to compress.  Unix has unsit but not vice versa.
FUI, tar is also availabe at the same place I mentioned.

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