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From: civir1070@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (FURRY R)
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Subject: Re: Amiga FTP Summary
Summary: *.Z files
Keywords: *.Z COMPRESS PACK UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.202554.13434@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 21:23:11 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.160111.5688@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <325@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>
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In article <325@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>, lance@mpd.tandem.com (Lance Hartmann) writes...
>In article <1991Jun24.160111.5688@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ii9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>[STUFF DELETED]
>>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 
>>[REMAINDER DELETED]
> 
>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.

   Comfirmed.  I've never used pack or unpack, and have been able to
decompress ALL the .Z/.z files I've tried.  The file may need renaming
to .Z, but it still works properly.

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