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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Can't get X386 to Work
Message-ID: <1991Apr07.212801.7844@virtech.uucp>
Date: 7 Apr 91 21:28:01 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.235457.20710@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr6.235952.20862@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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mitchemt@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Terry Mitchem) writes:

>	I forgot to ask about this in my first post.  What format are the
>man pages in? I got files such as xwud.n.z.  Are these compressed or what?

A lowercase .z usually indicates that the file was compressed using the
pack(1) utility.  Use unpack or pcat to view the file.

The .n may mean that it is an nroff source file. However, you cannot 
tell until you get it unpacked and look at the file.
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