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Subject: Re: HELP! What are `Z' files? - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 18-May-87 22:46:00 EDT
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[Mail got bounced back, so I have to post this.]

Files with suffix '.Z' are supposed to be files compressed by the `compress'
program (magic number "\037\235"). Asking `file' for the type of a compressed
`.Z' file should produce something like "compressed data block compressed 16
bits".

To convert compressed files back to readable format, use `uncompress' which is
just a symbolic link to the binary `compress'.

...hope this is of use,
Juergen Wagner,		     (USENET) ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			 Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Stuttgart