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- From: draphsor@deathstar.Stanford.EDU (Matt Rollefson)
- Subject: Re: Mac's Compact Pro for the NeXT?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.013630.26514@morrow.stanford.edu>
- Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
- Organization: Residential Computing, Stanford University
- References: <8107@orbit.cts.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:36:30 GMT
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- In comp.sys.next.misc skrans@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Steve Krans) writes:
- >I will be selling my macintosh and buying a NeXT withing a few months, and I
- >would still like to be able to access the hundreds of Compact Pro archives
- >that I have. Is there a NeXT or unix utility that can uncompact these?
- >Bill Goodman (author) said there was an unofficial unix utility that will
- >work, but I don't know the name or where it's located. Help appreciated.
-
- The name of the utility is macunpack. Remember that all Mac files have
- a resource fork and a data fork, and the NeXT currently isn't real
- savvy about just what to do with those two different parts. Assuming
- you're just unpacking more or less text files (ie text files, gif's,
- etc) you should be ok.
-
- As to where to find it, archie comes back with:
-
- Host wuarchive.wustl.edu
-
- Location: /mirrors3/rascal.ics.utexas.edu/unix-utilities
- FILE -rw-rw-r-- 69013 Jan 25 04:36
- macunpack_1.1_shar.Z
-
- Host nic.switch.ch
-
- Location: /software/mac/decompression/unpack_on_UNIX
- FILE -rw-rw-r-- 7708 Dec 28 00:00 macunpack.README
- FILE -rw-rw-r-- 179917 Dec 28 00:00
- macunpack_1.1_shar
-
- Host emx.cc.utexas.edu
-
- Location: /pub/mnt/source/archivers
- FILE -rw-rw-r-- 120208 Nov 13 1991 MacUnpack.shar
-
- >Thanks. SK.
-
- No problem. Enjoy.
-
- Rollie
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