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- From: pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin)
- Subject: Re: .Z extension
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.054507.12470@stortek.com>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:45:07 GMT
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- greg berryman (gpb@gpb-mac) wrote:
- : jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:
- :
- : 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
-
- Definitely. MacCompress -- freeware from the usual archives.
- But beware -- it trashes the input file -- never use it except on a copy!
-
- : 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.
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- (Presuming you have ready access to a unix system and ftp :-)
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