aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam C. Duncan) (07/25/89)
I have encountered several .Z files when downloading from different ftp sites. I'm not sure how to handle this. The check for the headers in the file fails under BinHex and Stuffit. If someone could tell me how to handle these .Z files It would be greatly appreciated. ***************************************************************** * Adam C. Duncan aw1j@andrew.cmu.edu * * Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-5366 * * GSIA Computing Group (412)268-2276 * * * *****************************************************************
dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke) (07/25/89)
In article <AYmqHKy00WB5MExkUV@andrew.cmu.edu> aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam C. Duncan) writes: >If someone could tell me how to handle these .Z files >It would be greatly appreciated. .Z normally indicates that the file has been compressed using the unix compress command/program. If you have the program Maccompress you can download the file and then uncompress it locally with the Macintosh. If you don't have MacCompress then you have to uncompress it on Unix and then download it. Hope this helps. -- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|///////////////////////////////////////// David M. O'Rourke____________________|_____________dorourke@polyslo.calpoly.edu | God doesn't know, he would have never designed it like that in the first | |_ place. ____________________________________________________________________|
afoster@ogccse.ogc.edu (Allan Foster) (08/01/89)
In article <AYmqHKy00WB5MExkUV@andrew.cmu.edu> aw1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Adam C. Duncan) writes: >I have encountered several .Z files when downloading >from different ftp sites. I'm not sure how to handle this. >The check for the headers in the file fails under BinHex and >Stuffit. If someone could tell me how to handle these .Z files >It would be greatly appreciated. .Z Files are for unix and they have been put through Compress. This is a unix utility and is pretty straight foreward to use, and does a LZW compression of the file. Hope that helps Allan Foster afoster@cse.ogc.edu -- Allan Foster UUCP : tektronix!ogcvax!afoster UseNet: afoster@cse.ogc.edu GEnie : A.FOSTER AppleLink : D1663 MacNet : FOSTER