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- From: Rug-rat@cris.com (Thomas Pinto)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Help on .GZ extension
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 13:46:59 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
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- Willard Baker (bronco@minor.rnet.com) wrote:
-
- : While scanning FTP directories for C=64/C=128 software I see many files
- : having a filename extention .GZ.
-
- : Please, is this some sort of archive, and if so, what is needed to
- : restore the files to executable form?
-
- ".gz" is a utility used on the IBM platform to crush files to small
- little bytes. To switch them back to normal you must have shell
- commands available on your internet account. To do this from your
- internet account you type this at your shell prompt:
-
- gunzip filename.gz
-
- that's all! It will ungunzip it and then the name of the file will
- be the same except it drops the ".gz" off the end of it.
-
- Hope this helps ya.
-
- ps: Some unix commands may differ from one another, but that command
- works for me.
-
- -Tom
-
-