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- From: Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson)
- Message-ID: <19920903.061319.447@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 09:12:16 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Need help with compression progs
- Organization: IBM - PS/1 Development
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- In <1992Sep3.000443.6470@iscsvax.uni.edu> fisher2557@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- >I am just getting into ftp and was trying to download some programs from
- >wuarchive.wustl.edu and was stumped as to how I am supposed to unpack programs
- >with a ".Z" extension on them. Could someone please post a list of most common
-
- You can look in the FAQ (should be any day now) to see the common suffixes.
- Also the help file for ShrinkItGS has a listing. BUT, the neato thing about
- wuarchive is that if you do the get for the file and don't add the .Z suffix,
- it will decompress it for you (i.e. to get the file 1968.Z from wuarchive you
- can type 'get 1968.Z' and get the compressed file or you can 'get 1968' and
- it will send you the decompressed version). .Z is a mainframe semi-standard.
- To decompress on the mainframe try 'decompress' or 'uncompress'. I also
- think that ShrinkIt handles .Z files, that way you can send a compressed
- file over the modem instead of a binscii file. Of course if you have
- sciibin compiled on your mainframe, then you should convert the file to
- .SHK or .BXY on the mainframe and send that file via modem.
-
- Pauley
- GEnie: P.Benson1
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