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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: what's .Z ?
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Date: 10 Jan 90 23:31:03 GMT
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In article <25AAB4A2.4638@paris.ics.uci.edu> rang@paris.ics.uci.edu (Roger Penaranda Jr. Ang) writes:
> I downloaded some binaries from xanth with .uu?.Z extensions.
> I fiddled with them but couldn't zoo or uudecode them.  What should I
> do to extract the files?

.Z indicates a compressed file, made with the compress utility found
on many UNIX machines (and available for the Amiga).  If you don't
have it, the source is available also from xanth as /pub/compress.tar.
	...tad