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- From: zlsiimw@info.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: File extension .Z
- Message-ID: <7476@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 09:17:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.034032.11647@koko.csustan.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan25.034032.11647@koko.csustan.edu>, jfleming@koko.csustan.edu
- (John Fleming) writes:
- |> Can someone direct me to a newsgroup where I can find out
- |> about files on UNIX machines which have the .Z extension.
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- They are files which have been compressed using the 'compress' command.
- To get back to the original file do 'uncompress.Z fred' (assuming the
- compressed file is called 'fred.Z'). See 'man compress' for further info.
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