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In article <cass8806.259@elan.glassboro.edu> cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (KYLE CASSIDY) writes:
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>	while ftping i frequently see programs with the .z suffix, which i 
>assume is some type of text compression. what is is? and what do i need to 
>de-arc something compressed with it?

Files with the .z suffix have been compressed with the 'pack' program,
which uses Huffman coding.  They can be uncompressed with 'unpack',
which replaces the compressed file with its uncompressed form.  There is
also the program 'pcat', which uncompresses .z files and sends the
result to standard output.

Files with the .Z suffix have been compressed with the 'compress'
program, which uses the Lempel-Ziv compression method.  They can be
uncompressed with 'uncompress'.  There is also a 'zcat' program, which
is the analog of 'pcat' for these files.

The 'pack' and 'compress' programs are generally available on Unix
systems, and may be available on other systems, but I don't know which
ones may have them.
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