Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!liuida!d88ricwe From: d88ricwe@odalix.ida.liu.se (Rickard Westman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Whatza .Z file? Message-ID: <1991Apr15.122025.28393@ida.liu.se> Date: 15 Apr 91 12:20:25 GMT References: <8760@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1991Apr11.104812.4833@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@ida.liu.se (News Subsystem) Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 17 lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace) writes: >rik@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) writes: >>[discussion about .Z/compress deleted] >>>@Use the ``FILES.Z'' file to locate any archivers you need. >> ^^ >> ^^^^^^^ >>Isn't this a tad silly? How would a new user get compress to >>uncompress the file that tells him/her where the compress program is? >Ever hear of zcat? You don't need to use compress to read a .Z file. Actually, the binaries for zcat, compress and uncompress are identical. Only the names are different. If you have got one of them, you can get the others by simple renaming. -- Rickard Westman, University of Linkoping, Sweden (d88ricwe@odalix.ida.liu.se)