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- From: rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:31:20 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
- Message-ID: <142340002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- References: <1992Dec8.023935.3077@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
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- >Hmmm, I'm able to do this without HandOff. When I download ZModem
- >using ZTerm, it sets the file type/creator to ZIVU/LZIV, and
- >doubleclicking them automatically launches MacCompress. (If I
- >shift-click a bunch of them and open, MacCompress will uncompress
- >as a batch.) I may have had to rebuild my desktop to do this, but
- >it's worked fine as long as I remember.
-
- Yes, that would work if the file was created with MacCompress, but what
- if it was created with Un*x compress? It then probably ends up as a
- TEXT file after the Zmodem transfer. Unless, that is, ZTerm does something
- special with .Z files. I'm ZTerm registered user #7 (as I recall), but
- I use White Knight.
-
- Ray
-