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In <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com> chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:

>In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
>>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
>>
>>>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
>>>suspect someone here will know the answer.  So here goes nothing...
>>
>>>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z'  (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
>>>them usable?  I assume they are archived.  I guess I just need to know the
>>>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
>>
>>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
>>small .z
>>If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
>>typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
>>In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
>>	Hope this helps.
>>		Mystic
>>(alex.soto@analog.com)

>There is also a .Z extension for a certain DOS compression program (just
>called compress I think).  It's used by some people because of it's 
>Windows compatibility (I guess pkzip isn't (or wasn't) windows compatible).
>You don't have to be in Windows to uncompress, but you do have to have the 
>compress program.

Sorry, but not quite correct.  The .Z extension is the result of the
*UNIX* 'compress' program.  The DOS 'compress' that you see is a port
of that.  

[Note that it also has nothing to do with 'tar', except that some
variants of tar will run compress on the resulting tarfile for you.] 

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