Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dg!webo.dg.com!bkahn
From: bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .Z files and shrinkit
Message-ID: <968@dg.dg.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 22:32:44 GMT
References: <900913162235.743246@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
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In article <900913162235.743246@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>,
TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
|> Someone recently indicated that shrinkit can be used to uncompress
unix
|> .Z files that have been compressed with compress.  Is there any
|> particular trick to doing it?  (I haven't tried it but I thought
|> shrinkit only took files of a particular prodos filetype and
internal
|> structure.)  

  Just open the .Z file as you would any other file (you may have to
toggle the show all/archives only but thats nothing).

|> Can it also be used to compress a file and produce a .Z
|> compatible file?  (The application is obvious:  decreasing the
|> communications line time for transferring large text files between a
|> unix system and an apple system.)

  Nope but you can use Andy McFaddens NuLib program (available from your
favorite
anonymous FTP site or from the archives).  A very nice program that
think
any Apple owning user shouldn't be without...

|> 
|> TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil

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