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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4194.0. ".Z files. What do you do with them?" by EUCLID::OWEN (Chocolate Frosted Crunchy Sugar Bombs) Fri Oct 12 1990 10:16

    
    I got a file (uuencoded) from an FTP site.  When I uudecoded it, it
    turns itself into a .z file.
    
    The file is called FILES.Z and supposidly is a list of all the files on
    the FTP site abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov.
    
    So, what do I do with a .z file?
    
    Thanks,
    Steve
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4194.1how toKALI::PLOUFFIt came from the... dessert!Fri Oct 12 1990 10:3714
    You have a file compressed with Unix "compress."
    
    Get LZCOMP and LZDCMP from the VMS Toolshed -- type VTX TOOLSHED from
    the VMS prompt.  Then you can decompress the archive with:
    	$LZDCMP -B -X 3 filename.Z filename
    If you forget the second file name, you'll see the decompressed file
    scroll past on your screen.
    
    If you've already downloaded the file to your Amiga, get "compress"
    from the Dillon UUCP distribution (UUCP 1.06D or UUCP 1.03D).  Then the
    command is
    	compress -d filename.Z
    or possibly
    	compress >filename -d filename.Z
4194.2EUCLID::OWENChocolate Frosted Crunchy Sugar BombsFri Oct 12 1990 13:285
    
    Great...
    
    Thanks alot!  Everything worked well.