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Article #41133Re: What's a filename.Z archive?
From: Andy Cassino
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 00:19
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 00:19
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| ...I was going to ftp
| some stuff from wuarchive.wustl.edu and I noticed that all the archives
| ended with a .Z extender. What do I need to unarc these type files? (I've
| got ARC and ZOO). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
| Todd Miller - millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU |
Those *.Z files have been compressed with the UNIX "compress" utility.
You need the "uncompress" utility to decode them. As far as I know, neither
compress nor uncompress has been ported to the ST, you'll have to do this on
a UNIX machine.
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