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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: .Z File ext
Message-ID: <032547.17465@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 11:10:46 GMT
References: <91156.001139NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET>
Sender: marc@sequoia (Marc Bouron)
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In article <91156.001139NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET>, <NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET> writes:
> Hi
> Some of the text type files I have retrived from terminator have .Z file
> extentions on them. How do I get rid of these file extensions to be able to rea
> d the file.
> please help me if you can
> thanks
> Nick Coyne
> NCOYNE@ESOC.BITNET

These are files compressed with UN*X compress(1); uncompress with uncompress(1).
There is an ST version of compress - you'd use compress -d to uncompress.

[M][a][r][c]


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