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From: rob@lucifer.UUCP (Rob Clive)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: what format are .Z files in?
Message-ID: <47@lucifer.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 08:00:32 GMT
References: <8903281714.aa01931@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: rob@lucifer.UUCP (Rob Clive)
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In article <8903281714.aa01931@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> ART100@PSUVM.BITNET ("Andy Tefft  862-6728", 814) writes:
>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).
> ... .Z files are packed with Lempel-Ziv.

Isn't this the coding used by ShrinkIt?  How easy would it be to write 
something to translate ShrinkIt files to a format that uncompress could
understand?

P.S. Has anybody had trouble with IIplus unShrink?  I can get to the bit where
you select the file in the archive to be extracted but then the program seems
to stop and won't respond to any key except RESET;  that takes me back to the
start.