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From: ART100@PSUVM.BITNET ("Andy Tefft  862-6728", 814)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: what format are .Z files in?
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Date: 28 Mar 89 22:14:00 GMT
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Files with a .Z suffix which are stored on Unix machines are in
compressed format -- use the uncompress program in Unix to uncompress
them (this seems to be a pretty standard utility that everyone has).
I'm not aware of a program to uncompress them on Apples. Anyone know
of one?

There is also a .z suffix, which indicates files packed with the 'pack'
program, which uses Huffmann encoding. .Z files are packed with
Lempel-Ziv.