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From: c60b-1eq@web-1a.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Is there a MSDOS .Z uncompress utility?
Keywords: compress uncompress .Z
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.083444.29597@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 08:34:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.203219.15740@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <fictorie.671102802@freyr> <1991Apr8.172213.1606@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1991Apr8.172213.1606@midway.uchicago.edu> mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
>I downloaded and used COMP430D.  A problem I've run into is that
>compressed text files, when uncompressed on my PC, have had their
>carriage return codes inexplicably transformed to ^Js.  Any solutions,
>suggestions, etc?

They were most likely UN*X text files.  Remember, the EOL character(s)
are different for UN*X (LF only) and MSDOS (CR/LF).

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