Astute question about /pub/comp.lang.lisp

[Steve Strassmann <straz@cambridge.apple.com>]

>Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 09:11 EST
>From: DOYLE@SISU
>Subject: Ignorant question about /pub/comp.lang.lisp
>To: info-mcl@cambridge.apple.com
>
>I just noticed that on cambridge.apple.com there was a new
>directory /pub/comp.lang.lisp containing information from the
>USENET news group of the same name. I'd love to look at these, but
>the files have names like 1992.Feb.Z, which I think means they
>are in Unix compressed format.
>
>Since I don't have a Unix machine, how do I decode these? I downloaded
>tar and suntar1.2.2 from sumex, but it didn't appear that these dealt
>with compressed files (I might be wrong!)
>
>Any suggestions?
>Sean Doyle
>doyle@sisu.mgh.harvard.edu
>
>

How astute of you to notice! You can decompress these with MacCompress,
available by anonymous ftp from sumex-aim.stanford.edu:/info-mac/util/.
But actually, since it's so handy, I've just put a copy right there
into /pub/comp.lang.lisp for you.

Remember to use "binary" mode in ftp before getting these files, or
you may lose the eighth bit on each byte.

In case anyone else is interested, here's the directory listing:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       195349 Apr 22 19:22 1990.Apr.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        77297 Apr 22 19:23 1990.Aug.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        68619 Apr 22 19:23 1990.Dec.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        77091 Apr 22 19:24 1990.Feb.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin         4948 Apr 22 19:24 1990.Jan.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       105173 Apr 22 19:25 1990.Jul.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       114589 Apr 22 19:26 1990.Jun.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       125043 Apr 22 19:28 1990.Mar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        99499 Apr 22 19:28 1990.May.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       165592 Apr 22 19:30 1990.Nov.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       162583 Apr 22 19:31 1990.Oct.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       177272 Apr 22 19:32 1990.Sep.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       142235 Apr 22 19:33 1991.Apr.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       212759 Apr 22 19:34 1991.Aug.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        90423 Apr 22 19:35 1991.Dec.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       321499 Apr 22 19:38 1991.Feb.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       191008 Apr 22 19:39 1991.Jan.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       287559 Apr 22 19:42 1991.Jul.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       141079 Apr 22 19:43 1991.Jun.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       118931 Apr 22 19:44 1991.Mar.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       156577 Apr 22 20:46 1991.May.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       192007 Apr 22 20:47 1991.Nov.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       390324 Apr 22 20:49 1991.Oct.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       252240 Apr 22 20:51 1991.Sep.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       348191 Apr 22 20:54 1992.Feb.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin       208241 Apr 22 20:55 1992.Jan.Z
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin          805 Apr 22 19:19 README
-rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        76742 Apr 29 10:24 maccompress-32.hqx