Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!twg.com!david From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction Subject: Re: Whatza .Z file? Message-ID: <8854@gollum.twg.com> Date: 23 Apr 91 00:29:31 GMT References: <8760@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <1991Apr11.104812.4833@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <8778@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 28 In article <8778@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes: >In article <1991Apr11.104812.4833@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> rik@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) writes: >>@Most (all?) of these archivers are available somewhere from this site. >>@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? > >No, it makes sense. All decent Unix systems have the "compress" >program. There's no need to shuffle the thing to your Amiga. Just >uncompress and read it on whatever system you have hooked up to ftp. No it doesn't .. suppose you're on a machine which isn't Unix and which doesn't otherwise have {,un}compress? After all, all the world's not Unix (yet;-)). David -- <- David Herron, an MMDF & WIN/MHS guy, <- Formerly: David Herron -- NonResident E-Mail Hack <- <- "MS-DOS? Where we're going we don't need MS-DOS." --Back To The Future