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From: dkoski@hercules.as.arizona.edu (David Koski)
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Subject: Re: Next doesn't recognize uncompressed?
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Date: 26 Nov 90 19:06:29 GMT
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In article <560@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey) writes:
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>   Is there any reason that, after i "uncompress" a file (take kermit.Z)
>the next recognizes it purely as a text document and not an application.
>Am i (again) doing something wrong?  Patientence and answer much
>appreciated.. Thanks. Loki
> 

Have you tried setting the executeable flags?  Try chmod +x file from a shell...
I don't know if any thing else has to be updated, but this is required after 
uncompressing a binary on all UNIX machines.

David Koski