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From: gandalf@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Juergen Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Compressed files in uunet.uu.net
Message-ID: <1895@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 22 Jan 88 23:32:32 GMT
References: <304@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: gandalf@Russell.Stanford.edu (Juergen Wagner)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <304@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> schung@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
>	...							I tried
>	downloading them 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.

Well, I reckon you just transferred the files from uunet.uu.net as text
files, i.e. all the non-printing control characters in the files are very
likely to have changed during the transfer. To ftp files which are not 
pure text use the "binary" transfer mode. I guess, your uncompress will be
much happier eating these files. Try!

-- 
Juergen Wagner,			        gandalf@Russell.Stanford.edu
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford CA