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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: Sat, 2 Mar 96 23:09:50
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- Steve Neas (sneas@delphi.com) wrote:
- : Joyce <joyce@wt.com.au> writes:
- :
- : >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
- :
- : I think Unix "compress" will unpack a *.Z file, I don't know if
- : gzip will. But what I would like to find is a *.gz uncompresser
- : for the Amiga. Any pointers?
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- Aminet:
- gzip124x2.lha util/pack 63K 97+gzip-1.2.4 RESPIN 2, GNU archiving util
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- It will also unpack .z files, though I am not sure if it can create them.
-
- -- Mat.
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