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From: mrharrison@orchid.waterloo.edu (Mike Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: file compression
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Date: 28 Oct 89 16:28:41 GMT
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In article <2993@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) writes:
>I believe the .Z filename ending refers to a UNIX compression, not something
>like ShrinkIt or BinSCII. Try "uncompress <file>" on your UNIX system.  Of
>course, this didn't work when I got moria from husc6 -- saying "uncompress
>moria01.Z" on a 40K file eventually ended up with a file that went over my
>disk quota.  And moria has 13 files.  Does anyone else have any ideas?
>
>Howard
>huang@husc4.harvard.edu

Yes, .Z is definitely Unix compress. The uncompressed moria01 is only 67K
so I suspect that you may not have changed the type to "bin" before
getting the compressed file. Failing to specify bin results in a corrupted
file. So type "bin" before doing a get. This should work.

Mike
mrharrison@orchid.waterloo.edu