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This is the HERO archive at FTP.CS.PDX.EDU
Questions and comments should be mailed to the archive administrator:
Mike Harvey
mike@cs.pdx.edu
When sending email to the administrator, please begin your subject line
with "Archive:" so it doesn't get lost in the dozens of messages which
arrive daily (many of which are deleted if they don't look interesting).
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Some frequently asked questions:
Q. What is a .gz extension mean?
A. Files with a .gz extension are compessed using GNU ZIP, a free
compression utility. If you run Linux, it should be available on
your system as gzip; many UNIX systems will have it as well. If
you run DOS, get ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
If you use Windows 95 or Windows NT, WinZip will handle .gz files.
Q. What is a .Z extension?
A. I don't think there are any of these in the archive, but if you
find one, it is a file compressed with the UNIX 'compress' utility.
Versions are available for all major operating systems, and are
included with UNIX and Linux.
Q. What are .tar files?
A. Files with a .tar extension are uncompressed archives; "tar" is a
utility (Tape ARchiver) which can be found on any UNIX system.
Versions are available for DOS in any decent archive (extar.exe
is a good one), and Win95/WinNT users can use WinZip.
Q. What is a .tar.Z, .tar.gz, or .tgz file?
A. Tarred files are frequently compressed with "compress" (.tar.Z) or
GNU Zip (.tar.gz or .tgz). Such files should first be decompressed
to produce a .tar file, then untarred as described above.
Q. Hey... what about the Macintosh?
A. Sorry, I really don't know anything about it. I am sure Mac versions
of the above utilities are available, but I don't know what they are
called or where to get them. Check your favorite general-purpose FTP
archive in the "archiving" or "compression" or "utilities" section.
For more information on file compression, try the following web pages:
http://www.matisse.net/files/formats.html
http://www.mps.org/~ebennett/
http://ac.dal.ca/~dong/contents.html
http://ac.dal.ca/~dong/compress.htm
Some archives where utilities can be found:
http://www.winsite.com/
ftp://ftp.winsite.com/
ftp://ftp.cica.indiana.edu/
ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe