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From: grano@kreeta.cs.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Grano)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ZOO files
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Date: 1 Aug 89 21:48:58 GMT
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In article <18917@usc.edu> ctcheung@pollux.usc.edu (Christopher T. Cheung) writes:
!Hi! 
!	I just go hold of a zoo file (I think) and I don't quite know how to
!get it working.  They are in 10 parts and they named part01.Z to part10.Z.
!I FTPed it from one of the anonymous FTP sites (I forgot which one).  Can 
!someone PUULEEASE help!!!!  Thanx in advance!!

	The .Z ending in files is a UNIX convention which means that the
files are compressed with the compress utility available on UNIX
systems. Thus, to uncompress them you'll need compress, not zoo. There
are some public domain compress-lookalikes for MESS-DOS available; I
think Simtel might have one. Once you have compress, the usual procedure
to uncompress the .Z files is

	compress -d myfile.foo.Z

which will (again, usually) produce the uncompressed file myfile.foo.
I understand your files are not also in tar format (myfile.tar.Z) - if they
were, you would additionally need a lookalike for the UNIX tar utility.

Hope this helps,
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Kari Grano				University of Helsinki, Finland
email to: grano@cs.helsinki.fi		Department of CS