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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .Z files on FTP
Message-ID: <50255@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 08:56:36 GMT
References: <1991Mar12.092649.27232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <13321@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
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In article <13321@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:

>>How does one go about de-archiving those files on FTP that have a .Z extension?

>	They are compressed with a UNIX shell utility called, appropriately
>enough, compress. [I've got them aliased to "pack" and "unpack"]
>	There's also a GS shell program to uncompress that format.. Hmm..
>I think ShrinkIT GS does compress by now, but I'm not positive.

GS-ShrinkIt has always been able to uncompress .Z COMPRESSed files.  Just make
sure you're using the latest version (1.0.4) since previous versions have had
serious problems.

andy


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