🚀 go-pugleaf

Here is a summary of all the reponses:

When you 'compress' something, compress doesn't save the file permissions. 
So
this   means that when you uncompress all you get for file permissions is
whatever is your   default (probably 644) is.  On the other hand when you
'tar'
something first, and then   'compress' the tar file, tar saves the
permissions
and when you extract it you get the same   file back.

If the file was an executable, under 2.1 (3.0 inspector does not carry the
relevant permissions) use the inspector in the WorkSpace to look at the
file  
permission and turn on all the executable bits OR open a Terminal window
and
type   'chmod a+x file_name'. For more info, search in Digital Librarian
for
"chmod".

THANKS TO ALL WHO RESPONDED...

 Eddy Cue
 cue@apple.com

In article <cue-131092020831@17.1.7.157>, cue@apple.com (Eddy Cue) wrote:
> 
> I am trying to uncompress some Next files (.Z) with Opener. All .tar.z
> files uncompress fine, but all .z files uncompress to a document. It
> doesn't recognize the contents as an application. The original files are on
> a DOS disk. Any ideas?