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From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: How do I convert a file with .Z on the end?
Message-ID: <167@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 02:10:55 GMT
References: <1989Dec12.210649.17844@cec1.wustl.edu| <563@grape3.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska
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In article <563@grape3.UUCP|, king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King) writes:
| In article <1989Dec12.210649.17844@cec1.wustl.edu> dal8372@cec2.UUCP (David A. Luther) writes:
| >I have a few files that have a .Z on the end of them.  How do I convert
| >them to a normal file?  If there is a program to do this, does anyone
| >have a copy?
| 
| On a Unix system, the program that compresses files and adds the .Z extension
| is generally know as 'compress', the complementary program to uncompress them
| is (not surprisingly) 'uncompress'.  I wouldn't be too surprised if you've
| already got these at your site, possibly under a different name.
 
At my site, 'compress -d filename' does it... no need to add '.Z'
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