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From: danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik)
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Subject: Re: Handling files with ".Z" extension
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Date: 21 Dec 90 12:44:40 GMT
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In article <1990Dec19.082258.16224@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>In article <90352.10461334AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET> 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET writes:
>>How are files with an extension of ".Z" processed? Are these compressed
>>with ZOO, or Unix compres, or what?  What UNdoes whatever has been done to
>>them?
>
>No, they are treated with Unix compress, uncompress and zcat.  Try
>  man compress 
>on your Unix system.

    Are there any programs for PCs that will uncompress these files?

Thanks,  Dan  (danr@ais.org)