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From: jff@denali.ee.uidaho.edu (Jim Frenzel)
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Subject: Re: .Z compression; (a me-too request)
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.214550.18578@groucho>
Date: 28 Mar 91 21:45:50 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.121909.11514@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu> sikorski@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu writes:
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>Ditto.  How do I unravel .Z compression to read it on an msdos PC?
>

.Z as a file extension indicates that unix-based compress routine was
used.  You will have to move the file to a unix machine, run umcompress
and transfer back to msdos, unless you can find a pc version of unix
compress (which does exist I believe).

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  Jim Frenzel             Electrical Engineering
  University of Idaho     Moscow, ID 83843
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