yk4@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Yong Su Kim) (10/25/89)
I have seen files which end in ".Z" and they cannot be de-compressed using BINSCII nor SHRINKIT. Therefore I presume that it is some other compression format. Does anyone have a program which can decompress such files or know of an FTP site which has the program? _____________________________________________________________________________ |Internet: yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu |||||||The Korean from Hong Kong.|||||| |Bitnet : yk4@cunixc ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |UUCP : rutgers!columbia!cunixc!yk4 ||||||||||...Apple IIGS user...|||||||| |_______________________________________|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) (10/25/89)
In article <8910250355.AA02351@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>, yk4@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Yong Su Kim) writes: > > I have seen files which end in ".Z" and they cannot be de-compressed > using BINSCII nor SHRINKIT. Therefore I presume that it is some other > compression format. Does anyone have a program which can decompress such > files or know of an FTP site which has the program? They're compressed with unix COMPRESS. It's an LZW compression program available at a ton of FTP sites and does quite well when compressing. :-) andy -- Andy Nicholas InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu Box 435 uucp: rutgers!liberty!batman!shrinkit Moravian College GEnie: shrinkit Bethlehem, PA 18018 America Online: shrinkit CIS: 70007,3141
matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun Visualization Products) (10/26/89)
In article <8910250355.AA02351@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> yk4@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Yong Su Kim) writes: | | I have seen files which end in ".Z" and they cannot be de-compressed |using BINSCII nor SHRINKIT. Therefore I presume that it is some other |compression format. Does anyone have a program which can decompress such |files or know of an FTP site which has the program? | _____________________________________________________________________________ ||Internet: yk4@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu |||||||The Korean from Hong Kong.|||||| ||Bitnet : yk4@cunixc ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||UUCP : rutgers!columbia!cunixc!yk4 ||||||||||...Apple IIGS user...|||||||| ||_______________________________________||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Your file is compressed with the UNIX(tm) 'compress' utility. Have access to a unix machine? Upload the file to it, and do an 'uncompress file', then download the result. A GS version of compress was posted to 'comp.binaries.apple2' awhile back. Since I don't own a //gs I haven't used it or tested it. I do have it on file and can forward if desired. -- Matthew Lee Stier | Sun Microsystems --- RTP, NC 27709-3447 | "Wisconsin Escapee" uucp: sun!mstier or mcnc!rti!sunpix!matthew | phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355 |
UNESTJ@UNCVX1.BITNET (Tamara) (10/26/89)
Sorry for posting this folks, but this is to Matthew I have a copy of Kermit 3.86. I can't figure out how to reply to your address on this dang vms system. Tamara
huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) (10/28/89)
I believe the .Z filename ending refers to a UNIX compression, not something like ShrinkIt or BinSCII. Try "uncompress <file>" on your UNIX system. Of course, this didn't work when I got moria from husc6 -- saying "uncompress moria01.Z" on a 40K file eventually ended up with a file that went over my disk quota. And moria has 13 files. Does anyone else have any ideas? Howard huang@husc4.harvard.edu
mrharrison@orchid.waterloo.edu (Mike Harrison) (10/28/89)
In article <2993@husc6.harvard.edu> huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) writes: >I believe the .Z filename ending refers to a UNIX compression, not something >like ShrinkIt or BinSCII. Try "uncompress <file>" on your UNIX system. Of >course, this didn't work when I got moria from husc6 -- saying "uncompress >moria01.Z" on a 40K file eventually ended up with a file that went over my >disk quota. And moria has 13 files. Does anyone else have any ideas? > >Howard >huang@husc4.harvard.edu Yes, .Z is definitely Unix compress. The uncompressed moria01 is only 67K so I suspect that you may not have changed the type to "bin" before getting the compressed file. Failing to specify bin results in a corrupted file. So type "bin" before doing a get. This should work. Mike mrharrison@orchid.waterloo.edu