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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.200700.2329@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec11.031426.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:07:00 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com> chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:
-
- >In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
- >>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
- >>
- >>>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
- >>>suspect someone here will know the answer. So here goes nothing...
- >>
- >>>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z' (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
- >>>them usable? I assume they are archived. I guess I just need to know the
- >>>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
- >>
- >>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed? I think compressed or packed is
- >>small .z
- >>If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
- >>typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
- >>In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
- >> Hope this helps.
- >> Mystic
- >>(alex.soto@analog.com)
-
- >There is also a .Z extension for a certain DOS compression program (just
- >called compress I think). It's used by some people because of it's
- >Windows compatibility (I guess pkzip isn't (or wasn't) windows compatible).
- >You don't have to be in Windows to uncompress, but you do have to have the
- >compress program.
-
- Sorry, but not quite correct. The .Z extension is the result of the
- *UNIX* 'compress' program. The DOS 'compress' that you see is a port
- of that.
-
- [Note that it also has nothing to do with 'tar', except that some
- variants of tar will run compress on the resulting tarfile for you.]
-
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