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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: what format are .Z files in?
Keywords: download
Message-ID: <9938@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Mar 89 20:07:20 GMT
References: <Mar.28.13.33.45.1989.2408@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <Mar.28.13.33.45.1989.2408@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes:
>I suspect the .Z was supposed to clue me in to their file type ...

Very likely those are files that have been compacted with "compress".
The sources for "compress" itself may be found in many source archives.
You'll probably need a real computer, e.g. a UNIX system, to use for
uncompressing the files.