Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!husc6!ogccse!afoster From: afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: .Z Files.. Message-ID: <4028@ogccse.ogc.edu> Date: 1 Aug 89 15:50:05 GMT References: Reply-To: afoster@ogccse.UUCP (Allan Foster) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 23 In article 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 -- Allan Foster UUCP : tektronix!ogcvax!afoster UseNet: afoster@cse.ogc.edu GEnie : A.FOSTER AppleLink : D1663 MacNet : FOSTER