kklw@mullian..ee.mu.OZ.AU (Kevin K L WONG) (08/23/89)
I ftped some mac stuff from umn with .Z suffix. I tried zcat to look at them but it gave me some meaningless thing. Then I tried uncompress but it gave an output file of enormous size (2M) without meaningful content. What should I do with those files in order to convert them to mac files? Can anyone help? E-mail to me please. Thank you in advance. |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Kevin WONG | | Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering | | University of Melbourne |
coleman@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/24/89)
Files with the .Z extension have been compressed with the compress program available on UNIX systems. There are various compress algorithms used: some are 12-bit, some are 16-bit, I've even heard of a 13-bit compress. As I understand it, not all uncompress programs can handle all the different formats. If the version of uncompress you used does not produce readable files, try uncompressing it on a UNIX host. Scott kubla@uiuc.edu
bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (Ronald Bannon) (08/25/89)
In article <46100322@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> coleman@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >If the version of uncompress you used does not >produce readable files, try uncompressing it on a UNIX host. You can also uncompress .z files on the MAC with MacCompress, you can get MacCompress from sumex or I'll mail it to anyone who does not have ftp access. Ron Bannon bannon@andromeda.rutgers.edu
tdt@pyr.gatech.EDU ( Tim Tiemens) (08/26/89)
I just ran into this problem with .Z files uncompressing to mega-bytes. For
me, it was during the ftp stage - I had forgotten to set the 'binary' option.
After I did that, I re-got the files, and they uncompressed normally. Hope
this helps.
Tim Tiemens
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