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- From: dmeyers@mal-s2.gatech.edu (Dave Meyers)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
- Message-ID: <dmeyers.725639707@mal-s2>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:35:07 GMT
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- In <1hbvikINNpk9@agate.berkeley.edu> jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- This used to be the case in Zterm 0.85, except that Zterm did
- detect that it was a binary and saved it as such, with type/creator
- unspecified (I think you can change the default, but it was something
- ugly like ????/zBIN, which no application recognized, although
- macCompress was still able to decompress them. You just had to
- open them from inside MacCompress).
-
- >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.
-
- Zterm has the ability to recognize a few binary file formats,
- and with 0.9, un*x compressed binaries was added to this so
- that it saves them as MacCompress documents. Not all binary
- formats are recognized, though I think you can add them. See
- the manual. Bear in mind that these are not MacBinary transfers.
- MacBinary is a means of encoding a macintosh file, including
- both the resource and data forks, as well as finder information
- like type/creator, into a single binary file. Zterm is downloading
- the *.Z file as a straight binary, as the *.Z file has nothing
- more than a data fork. However, it recognizes that it is a
- un*x compressed doc and sets some of the finder information
- to make your life easier.
-
- <A quick round of applause for Dave Alverson, the author of Zterm!>
-
- --David (Not the author of Zterm!)
-
- --
- -- David S. Meyers (dmeyers@math.gatech.edu)
-