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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: what are .z files?
Message-ID: <37784@cup.portal.com>
Date: 9 Jan 91 21:47:43 GMT
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afsipmh@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA in <1991Jan9.180823.20939@cid.aes.doe.CA> writes
:

	I have this overwhelming feeling that this is a dumb questtion
	but, what are .z files (they are not compress type .Z files)?

The *.z files I've seen on SysV are those created/manipulated by the trio:

	pack, unpack, pcat

Similar to the *.Z trio (but different algorithms):

	compress, uncompress, zcat

Of note, also, is the fact the {pack, unpack, pcat} trio is NOT ln'd together
as are the members of the {compress, uncompress, zcat} trio.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]