Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!bionet!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!cs.dal.ca!dal1!ssmith From: ssmith@ac.dal.ca Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: xxxx.xxxx.Z files Summary: Z files Keywords: Z files Message-ID: <1899@ac.dal.ca> Date: 28 Aug 90 15:37:14 GMT Lines: 8 Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada I have been looking around some FTP site and have noticed most of the files use a compression method which names a file xxxx.xxxx.Z . I have been told that this "Z" extension means the files have been compressed with a utility called "COMPRESS". I have also found out that COMPRESS is a UNIX utility but there is a version that will run under MS-DOS. Does anybody know where I could FTP a copy of UNCOMPRESS???? Thanx