Re: MacShrinkit

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

Jonathyn Bet'nct <jonrelay@napanet.net> wrote in message
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> "Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net> wrote in message
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> > I got a Mac program in ZIP format and unzipped and ran it. Ergo, ZIP
works
> > for forked files with file types.  Obviously, it works.
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> It was probably encoded with MacBinary before it was zipped. The program
> ZipIt (www.maczipit.com) does that. MacBinary fits all the aspects of Mac
> files (data fork, resource fork, types, dates, flags, etc.) into one raw
> data file, which the ZIP format can compress.
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I believe you are correct. I downloaded that and another program called
"Unzip". I remember one was much better than the other, probably Maczipit,
since it's much larger.
-Paul