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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FTP file names .z
Message-ID: <V1iZT7w163w@valnet>
Date: 10 Dec 90 22:30:06 GMT
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Just nitpicking:

        The .Z tag means that you 'uncompress' it.
        The .z tag means that you 'unpack' it.

This is only valid for systems that allows different letter cases, and 
case IS important.

Also: .ar means use 'ar' and .tar means 'tar.

If you see something like:

file.tar.Z, use 'uncompress' first, (On UNIX, Amiga, whatever), then use 
'tar' to unpack the archive. (tar and ar just stick the files into one, 
as it's not a compressor...)


-jph
joseph@valnet.UUCP or ...!iuvax!valnet!joseph
IMHO: The "H" means "honest"!