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- From: 74171.2136@compuserve.com (Cris Berneburg)
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- Subject: Re: Extracting info from the internet
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:34:31 GMT
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- Phil Hoff <phoff@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
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- >cowboy@nwlink.com (Cowboy) wrote:
- >> I have seen a lot of references to ftp sites in this group, and see
- >> information that I would really like to use, but all the world is not
- >> M$-DOS. Mine is though. I do not know unix commands to extract and
- >> read the files I have downloaded (gz and sfx extensions) and, although
- >> I would love to learn unix, for now I am in Windows.
- >>
- >> I was wondering if anybody could point me in the direction of a
- >> program that could extract these files. They are just sitting on my
- >> desktop taunting me.
- >>
- >I tried to e-mail you a response, but your end was not receiving.
- >As for the .SFX files, the primary question here is whether or not you
- >have or have access to a 1571 or a 1581 disk drive. These need only
- >be copied to a C= compatible disk and run to de-arc them. This is
- >readily done if you have a 1571 or a 1581.
-
- >As far as the .GZ files, this is decoded with gunzip, which runs under
- >UNIX. I had a record of the site to get this file, but can't find it
- >now.
-
- There is a gzip program for dos that I use. Can email
- if necessary, but I can't remember wher I got it.
-
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