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Re: Problem with **ps.Z** format?.. How to decomp.? HELP....

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From: 26554-wood
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 17:30
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In article <BsKKw7.FMG@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> odonovan@sciborg.UWaterloo.CA
(Chris O'Donovan) writes:

>>I have recently downloaded a file with the extension ps.Z. I thought, 
>>MacCompress...

>The .Z format is UNIX. Use "uncompress filename.Z" on a UNIX machine to 
>extract "filename."

>If there is a Mac program to do this I too would like to know about it. 
>Anybody?

>Chris O'Donovan

I have MacCompress, version 3.2, by a Lloyd Chambers, that will do two
different formats: mac compress, and Unix compress.  I have found that
the Unix Compress format will compress and uncompress .Z files...

Chris Wood



Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
                         or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com
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Subject: Re:    Problem with **ps.Z** format?.. How to decomp.? HELP....
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 92 17:30:46 GMT
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