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- From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 09:23:32 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <1992Dec8.023935.3077@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <142340002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
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- In article <142340002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
- >>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 not sure how it works, but as I wrote in my previous post, when I
- download a file with ZTerm *that has been compressed using Un*x
- compress*, ZTerm receives in MacBinary mode and recognizes it as a
- file of type ZIVU/LZIV, which makes it doubleclickable from the
- Finder and launches MacCompress.
-
- Joel.
-
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- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
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