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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: .Z files
Summary: are made by compress
Keywords: help
Message-ID: <1210@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 03:11:27 GMT
References: <1158@sppy00.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1158@sppy00.UUCP> cjs@sppy00.UUCP (SCHALLER CHRIS) writes:
> I have done alot of downloading with the amiga, but have never
> encountered a compressed file with the .Z at the end.
> what do user to uncompress these files. Is it TAR, Ive heard of
> it but have no idea what it is.

Files ending with .Z were compressed with a utility called "compress".
Usually, you can uncompress by renaming the same executable as "uncompress".
I expect that there are command line options to select the desired behaviour
as well.

Files ending in .tar (I've also seen -tar) were archived by "tar", which is
short for Tape Archiver.  This utility does no compression, it just stores
a directory tree/file data into a single file.

Both programs should be on ab20.


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