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Re: Decoding .Z files



Subject:   Re: Decoding .Z files
  Date:    Mon, 5 May 1997 14:27:39 -0400 (EDT)
  From:    Paul Anderson <paul-at-geeky1.ebtech-dot-net>
    To:    Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


On Mon, 5 May 1997, Tesla List wrote:

> 
> .Z files are from the gnu gzip program.  Do a search for gzip there
> exists
> .exe for dos.
> 
Not TECHNICALLY, in fact .gz comes from gzip, .Z is for UNIX compress,
though gzip will handle them.  TTYL!


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