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- From: m91der@tdb.uu.se (Daniel Eriksson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: *.Z compression
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.233757.22682@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 23:37:57 GMT
- References: <C03FEF.Ht5@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Organization: Uppsala university, Sweden
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- Paul Chan (chanp@ccu.umanitoba.ca) wrote:
- : In article <A6780@M4.maus.de> Achim_Wilhelm@m4.maus.de (Achim Wilhelm) writes:
- : >*.Z is a FREEZEd file. So, use FREEZE for decompress it.
- :
- : That's not true.
- :
- : *.Z --> use uncompress
- : *.F --> use freeze -d
-
- And while we're discussing extensions:
-
- *.z (lower-case) --> use GNU ZIP
-
- It's supposed to become the new standard for the GNU-project. I can now
- see LOTS and LOTS of people wondering where to get an Atari-version of
- GNU ZIP (well, I hope at least _someone_ wants to know :-). Just watch
- this newsgroup the next couple of hours and you'll know. I just finished
- the port and is now putting together a simple readme-file.
-
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