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- From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
- Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:40:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.224012.25288@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Sep9.211050.24459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes:
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- >The 'Z' is the compression from Unix. Type: 'uncompress youngones.Z'
- >That'll get rid of the 'Z' and you can download it then to your PC. The thing
- >is that if they compressed it using Unix, they might be telling you that it's
- >a Unix file. Hope this helps...
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- What about the files on SIMTEL20 (and elsewhere) that have a .tar.Z extension?
- Is there additional processing besides the decompression?
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