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From: w8sdz@smoke.BRL.MIL (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Two questions
Message-ID: <11946@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 90 21:43:18 GMT
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Reply-To: w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith Petersen)
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In article <7355@chaph.usc.edu> dchun@alcor.usc.edu (Dale Chun) writes:
>From my ftp-ing all over the place, I have two questions:
>1) Why is simtel20.arpa dead?

The heating and air conditioning system is broken.  We cannot run the
computer without it.  It's supposed to be fixed late this afternoon.

>2) How do you un- pack|arc|zip|zoo|scramble a *.Z file? What is a *.Z file
>   anyways?

The .Z files are compressed with the Unix-compatible compress program.
Do:  man compress    on your Unix host to see how it works.

Keith

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