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- From: pdenomy@sos.on.ca (pdenomy)
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- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 16:15:04 GMT
- Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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- >Tony McCreath (mccreath@vossnet.co.uk) wrote:
- >:
- >: What decompressing tools can be used to decompress the INDEX.Z files on
- >: an Amiga?
- >:
- >>I suspect gzip will decompress a .z file as it is happy to do a .gz file.
-
- >>try gzip -d file.z
-
- >>Good luck,
-
- >>Louis
-
- The program that you need is called 'compress'.
- It is in the Aminet util/pack directory and is called compress-4.0.lzh.
- When unpacked you have 4 files: compress
- compress.c
- compress.man
- ReadMe
-
- compress is used to pack a file in the unix .z format.
-
- Re-Name 'compress' to 'uncompress' (no CAPITAL letters it won't work) then the
- command is 'uncompress <file.z> <dest dir>'.
-
- If you want to print the docs, use 'PrintFiles' as the docs have formatting
- codes built in.
-
- Hope this helps. :)
-
- Pete.
-
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