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From: jbatson@brazil.bbn.com (Jay Batson)
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Subject: Re: Compressed files in uunet.uu.net
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Date: 22 Jan 88 16:45:04 GMT
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In article <304@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Stephen the Greatest) writes:
>	I tried
>	downloading (some software) from uunet.uu.net anonymously, but most of the
>	files are already compressed into .Z files.  I tried to uncompress
>	them here but then all of them gave me junk.  Sometimes some 
>	uncompresses will never stop, so I end up with a bunch of 10M files.
>
>	Is there anything wrong with uncompress?


When you use ftp to download files, ftp uses a default "representation
type" of "network ASCII".  If you download files which have been "compress"ed,
the contents of the file will not arrive as it started, which is, of
course correct.  Given this, uncompress suffers from "GIGO".

You need to be sure to set your "representation type" to "image" (just type
"binary" at the ftp prompt) before you transfer files.  Sorry, you'll have
to download the files you obtained again.



Jay Batson
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