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From: jdia@ur-tut.UUCP (Wowbagger)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: HELP! What are `Z' files?
Message-ID: <1339@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 11:22:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ur-tut.1339
Posted: Thu May 14 11:22:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 10:31:36 EDT
References: <8705131943.AA16459@renoir.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jdia@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Wowbagger)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <8705131943.AA16459@renoir.Berkeley.EDU> samples@RENOIR.BERKELEY.EDU (A. Dain Samples) writes:
>I have unarchived some files with Z in the suffix of the file
>name, and cannot find ANY, repeat ANY, documentation on how
>to decode files with this suffix.  Nothing I try (unsqueeze,
>compress, archive, lar) recognizes this file.

I assume you are downloading files from archive sites, where files are often 
arc'ed or tar'ed and then compressed.  Files with a .Z suffix must be
downloaded with your download software (kermit, ftp, whatever..) in
binary mode.  If you are accessing a tops-20 machine for the download,
try "image" mode.  For more info see the documentation for whatever
software you are using.

The command to use to decode a .Z file is uncompress.  This should work.
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				I hope this helps...

					Wowbagger!



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