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Subject: Re: Pack/Unpack under 4.2 BSD? - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Mar-84 23:47:34 EST
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haddock!johnl    Mar 15 14:32:00 1984

The System III version of unpack and pcat has code for unpacking old
packed files lurking within, surrounded with "#ifdef pdp11" or the like.
For it to work on a 32 bit machine, some ints in the old unpacking code
have to be changed to shorts, but it's no big deal.

You have to rename the old packed files from *.p to *.z, but unpack is
smart enough to figure out what kind of packed file it is and unpack it
correctly.

John Levine, ima!johnl