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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
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Subject: Re: What's a filename.Z archive?
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Date: 20 Feb 90 22:13:43 GMT
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In article <5440105@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino) writes:
>| ...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.

They're available for the ST, honest! Just check terminator!

The files on wuarchive are the actual usenet articles, compressed. That means
that to get a usable file out of 'em, you need to uncompress, uudecode, and
then unarc.

The ST version is a full compress-4.3 utility, it'll compress and uncompress
with up to 16 bits of hashing, Just Like Real Unix.
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan