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Article #1390Re: .Z files
From: William Unruh
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:27
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:27
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wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett) writes:
> 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.
> Thanx in advance.
>--
>*******************************************************************************
>Bill Bennett Dept of Radiology The Ohio State University
>********************* wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu ********************
It's the old Unix compress with it's mate uncompress.
The referenc efrom the compress man page
A Technique for High Performance Data Compression, Terry A.
Welch, computer, vol. 17, no. 6 (June 1984), pp. 8-19.
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