millert@boulder.Colorado.EDU (MILLER TODD C) (02/19/90)
OK, I'm sure this has been answered before in this newsgroup, so please forgive me. (I only got my ST 4 days ago) Anyway, 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.
Thanks in advance.
-Todd
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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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Andy Cassino % % uucp: hplabs!hplsla!andyc domain: andyc%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com % % Hewlett-Packard Lake Stevens Instrument Division % % 8600 Soper Hill Road Everett, WA 98205-1298 % % (206) 335-2211 % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (02/20/90)
In article <17138@boulder.Colorado.EDU> millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MILLER TODD C) writes: >OK, I'm sure this has been answered before in this newsgroup, so please forgive me. (I only got my ST 4 days ago) Anyway, 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. A ".Z" signifies a file compressed with compress 4.3, a PD utility from the Unix world. You should be able to find an ST version there as well. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (02/21/90)
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. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan