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- From: mryba@MCS.COM (Michal L. Rybarski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 23:27:30 -0600
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- Mathew Hendry (m.hendry@dial.pipex.com) wrote:
- : 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.
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- : -- Mat.
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- Don't forget to increase stack if you work with gzip and bigger files.
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- Michal
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