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From: kristyn@aludra.usc.edu (KRISTYN GREENWOOD)
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Subject: Re: ftp *.*.Z files?
Keywords: squished, compressed, cant read
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Date: 23 Oct 89 20:50:07 GMT
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In article <17366@watdragon.waterloo.edu> amscaini@rose.waterloo.edu (Allan Scaini) writes:
>This is my first posting, hope it came out okay. 
>Anyway here's my problem.  I've just starting using FTP and dialed
>up  cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu [128.146.8.62] and found a bunch of neat
>sounding stuff that I tried to download (using tenex). The files have the
>following format:  cribbage.1.Z , cribbage.2.Z , etc..
>
>What exactly is this .Z stuff?  How do I unarchive them?  I tried all the
>party favourites like ZOO, ARC, UUDECODE, etc.. but none of them seemed to
>work.  Would someone please be so kind as to guide a poor misguided soul
>like me as to the proper techniques for getting these suckers down to my PC.
>

  The files are 'compressed'. you will need to obtain a copy of 'uncompress' 
 to unsquish the files. If you can arrange it to where you can work on
 a unix system, you could uncompress(its a standard utility) the files there 
 and then download them to your system.

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