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  2. From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
  4. Subject: Re: INDEX file on Aminet
  5. Date: 03 Mar 96 11:37:55 +0500
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  15. On or about 03-Mar-96 03:07:10 Steve Neas typed the following words about "Re:
  16. INDEX file on Aminet".  My reply is thus...
  17.  
  18.  
  19.  SN> Joyce <joyce@wt.com.au> writes:
  20.  SN>
  21. >>Tony McCreath (mccreath@vossnet.co.uk) wrote:
  22. >>:
  23. >>: What decompressing tools can be used to decompress the INDEX.Z files o
  24. >>: an Amiga?
  25. >>:
  26. >>I suspect gzip will decompress a .z file as it is happy to do a .gz file
  27. >>
  28. >>try gzip -d file.z
  29.  SN>
  30.  SN> I think Unix "compress" will unpack a *.Z file, I don't know if
  31.  SN> gzip will.  But what I would like to find is a *.gz uncompresser
  32.  SN> for the Amiga.  Any pointers?
  33.  SN>
  34.  SN> -Steve
  35.  SN> sneas@delphi.com
  36.  
  37. Huh? How about GZip!!! Works great since that is what it is supposed to do.
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