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In article <8911052127.AA03986@astro.psu.edu> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:

>Hi!  Okay, I can handle .lzh,.zuu,.zoo,.arc,.wrp,.pak,."a few others"...
>My problem is the   ".Z" files-- what do you use to unpack them?
>Actually, does anybody have a complete list of all the standard appendages
>for all the archiving programs out there?  Sorry if this is a repeat 
>question, but some stuff isn't covered in the intro documents!

       Ending                        Use
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       .zoo                          Zoo
       .arc 			     Arc
       .zip			     Zip
       .lzh 			     LHarc
       .sit			     Only available in "unsit" for amiga.
       .Z                            Compress (Lempel-Ziv)
       .C                            Compact (Huffman). Rather outdated.
       .sh/.shr/.shar                SHell ARchiver (SHAR).
       .wrp                          Amiga disk-archiver
       .tar                          Tape archiver.
       .sq                           Sq/Unsq. (forgot the proper name)
       .bak                          Matt Dillon's HD->Flippy backup util.

Can't think of any more. To answer the question, the files with the .Z ending
are single files that have been compressed using the COMPRESS(1) utility
on Unix, which is also available on the Amiga. (Faster to do it on Unix
tho!)