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From: drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Z?????
Message-ID: <1991Feb21.164753.5738@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 21 Feb 91 16:47:53 GMT
References: <60889@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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In article <60889@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> v053qhyx@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
>Hi...
>Does anyone know what the .z extension stands for on terminators
>sound files??? Which archiver is it???   
>     Thanx alot
>           Jeremy

  It's a system compression called "compress".  It SHOULD be on the
system you use to post news through.  If you are on a UNIX based machine
then by doing a 'man compress' (no quotes) should get you all the info.

    BTW: use uncompress to get them out of compression :-)


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