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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: What's a filename.Z archive?
Message-ID: <5440105@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 00:19:13 GMT
References: <17138@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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| ...I was going to ftp 
| some stuff from   wuarchive.wustl.edu and I noticed that all the archives 
| ended with a .Z extender.  What do I need to unarc these type files? (I've 
| got ARC and ZOO).  Any help  would be greatly appreciated.
|                 Todd Miller - millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU                     |

Those *.Z files have been compressed with the UNIX "compress" utility. 
You need the "uncompress" utility to decode them. As far as I know, neither 
compress nor uncompress has been ported to the ST, you'll have to do this on
a UNIX machine.

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