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Re: Two questions

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From: Patrick Wendt
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 12:31
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Hi !
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dchun@alcor.usc.edu (Dale Chun) writes:

>From my ftp-ing all over the place, I have two questions:

>1) Why is simtel20.arpa dead?
>2) How do you un- pack|arc|zip|zoo|scramble a *.Z file? What is a *.Z file
>   anyways?

To 1) Sorry, don't know ...
To 2) A .z - File normally is a *NIX - COMPRESSED - File, crunched
      with the COMPRESS-Utility ... don't know any DOS-Format creating
      .z - Files ... so maybe try to uncrunch it with Unix 'decompress'.

Greetings ... Pat !

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