home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3 / NN_1993_3.iso / spool / alt / internet / services / 2653 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Text File  |  1993-01-25  |  1016 b   |  32 lines
  1. Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!eng-b7-g15-16.eng.monash.edu.au!weiping
  3. From: weiping@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Weiping Hu Materials)
  4. Subject: Re: File extension .Z
  5. Message-ID: <weiping.53.727999666@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
  6. Lines: 20
  7. Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
  8. Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
  9. References: <1993Jan25.034032.11647@koko.csustan.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:07:46 GMT
  11.  
  12. In article <1993Jan25.034032.11647@koko.csustan.edu> jfleming@koko.csustan.edu (John Fleming) writes:
  13. >From: jfleming@koko.csustan.edu (John Fleming)
  14. >Subject: File extension .Z
  15. >Date: 25 Jan 93 03:40:32 GMT
  16. >Can someone direct me to a newsgroup where I can find out
  17. >about files on UNIX machines which have the .Z extension.
  18. >
  19. >I need to know about how to access these files.
  20. >
  21. >Thank You.. John Fleming
  22.  
  23. These are Unix compressed files.  Just use 
  24.  
  25. uncompress <filename>
  26.  
  27. to uncompress them.
  28.  
  29. Hope this helps.
  30.  
  31. Weiping
  32.