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- From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
- Subject: Re: .Z files
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:27:15 GMT
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- wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett) writes:
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- > I am new to the IBM world and when I was perusing the ftp sites I ran
- >across some files that I wanted that had a .Z extender. Can someone tell me
- >what the unarchival prog is for this extension and where to find it.
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- > Thanx in advance.
- >--
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- >Bill Bennett Dept of Radiology The Ohio State University
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- >********************* wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ********************
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- It's the old Unix compress with it's mate uncompress.
- The referenc efrom the compress man page
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- A Technique for High Performance Data Compression, Terry A.
- Welch, computer, vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.
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