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  7. From: beattie@ml.csiro.au (Bob Beattie)
  8. Subject: gzip'ed files renamed on transfer. Why?
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  14. Organization: CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart, Tas, Australia
  15. Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 06:27:59 GMT
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  18.  
  19. I have been using Solaris kermit 190 to transfer files
  20. that have been compressed with the gzip utility.
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  22. On the destination, the '.gz' exptension is changed to 'xgz'.
  23. ie 'file.gz' becomes 'filexgz'. Why is this so?
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  25. Thanks
  26. Bob Beattie
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