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From: lance@mpd.tandem.com (Lance Hartmann)
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Subject: Re: Amiga FTP Summary
Summary: *.Z files
Keywords: *.Z COMPRESS PACK UNIX
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Date: 25 Jun 91 14:35:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.160111.5688@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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In article <1991Jun24.160111.5688@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ii9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
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>I asked:
>2) In ab20, there's a file called "FILES.Z" which according to the 
>readme is supposed to be an index to what files are at that site.  But 
>it seems to be compressed in some way I'm not familiar with.  I've tried 
>arc, zoo, lharc, warp, etc. but nothing works.
>
>   Files with the .z extension are Unix compress files.  The command is 
>"compress -d <filename>.z", "decompress <filename>.z", "uncompress 
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Could someone confirm this please?  In my experience in UNIX, "*.Z" files 
(please note the CAPITAL 'Z') are compressed using "compress" and
"*.z" files (please note the lower case 'z') are compressed using
"pack" which use different compaction algorithms....  Also, with "pack"
and its counterpart "unpack", you do NOT specify the ".z" extension.
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Lance G. Hartmann - cs.utexas.edu!devnull!lance (Internet)
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