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- From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
- Subject: Re: .Z extension
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.014311.5007@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:43:11 GMT
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- jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:
- : Someone sent me a file, and after uudecoding it, it now remains a *.Z
- :
- :
- : How can I restore this thing back to its original (whole) self?
-
- What you have is a file that has been compressed with the unix compress
- command. There may be a Mac app that will uncompress it, but the easy way
- to take care of it is to ftp it to a unix system, uncompress it, and ftp
- the resulting file (without the .Z) back to your Mac.
-
- Greg.
-
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