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From: king@cell.mot.COM (Steven King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: what's .Z ?
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Date: 21 Jan 90 20:07:49 GMT
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In article <25AAB4A2.4638@paris.ics.uci.edu> rang@paris.ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
>quick question,
>	I downloaded some binaries from xanth with .uu?.Z extensions.
>I fiddled with them but couldn't zoo or uudecode them.  What should I
>do to extract the files?

Use "compress".  It's a reasonably standard Unix utility, and available for
the Amiga on Fish Disk 51 (yes, Fifty-One; I don't know if there's a newer
version available).  You may need to uudecode or un-zoo them (or both) after
you uncompress them.

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