Re: .Z Files..

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From: Allan Foster
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1989 15:50

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In article <AYmqHKy00WB5MExkUV@andrew.cmu.edu> aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam C. Duncan) writes:
>I have encountered several .Z files when downloading
>from different ftp sites. I'm not sure how to handle this.
>The check for the headers in the file fails under BinHex and
>Stuffit. If someone could tell me how to handle these .Z files
>It would be greatly appreciated.

.Z Files are for unix and they have been put through Compress.

This is a unix utility and is pretty straight foreward to use,
and does a LZW compression of the file.  

Hope that helps

Allan Foster
afoster@cse.ogc.edu



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