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Subject: Re: binary files
Keywords: binary, '.Z' tagged files
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Date: 2 May 89 21:58:11 GMT
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In article <10331@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> flatmas@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Scott Timothy Flatman) writes:
>How does one "decode" a binary file? I have downloaded a binary file
>from umn-cs.cs.umn.edu archives that was tagged with a '.Z' and it is a binary
>file.(I used ZTerm with ZModem protocol). I have tried running it through:
>Binhex5.0, Stuffit1.40A, PackitIII and MacArc but none of them liked it!
>Is there some other program that I need or am I missing something?
>
>Scott Flatman.

The only compression method I have seen use ".Z" is unix "compress".  Try
decompressing it like this
    % zcat oldfile > newfile