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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: `Z' files
Message-ID: <617@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 16-May-87 00:57:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.617
Posted: Sat May 16 00:57:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 01:03:36 EDT
References: <8705141943.AA29124@renoir.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8705141943.AA29124@renoir.Berkeley.EDU> 
samples@RENOIR.BERKELEY.EDU (A. Dain Samples) reminesces about an
article in which he asked how to uncompress files with a Z suffix:
>I fear I did not make myself clear enough.  My problem is not
>	<filename>.Z
>rather it is
>	<filename>.<suffix1>Z<suffix2>

Right.

>I was informed that the program I need is PD:<UNIX.SQ-USQ>UNCR231A.C
>so I am waiting for it to appear to give it a try. (I just hope it hasn't
>been `Z'd!)
>
>Dain

There is a popular CP/M utility set called CRUNCH and UNCRUNCH which
uses Ziv-Lempel compression and creates compressed files with the
?Z? suffix.  The original CP/M utility is written in assembly language
and UNCR231A.C is a portable C version of it.  I believe it uses
a 12-bit code.

So you are on the right track.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi