[bit.listserv.games-l] file ext ".Z"

CZIUD04@MVS.ULCC.AC.UK (02/05/90)

Hi! I fully expect to be shot down in flames for this... but...
does anyone know anything about files which are posted with the
extension ".Z" ?  Is there a way of unpacking them  (are they,
in fact, packed)/ is this even a vaguely useful thing to do under DOS ?
I naively supposed that they might be .ZOO files but  none of the
MS-DOS utils I have believe that this is the case.
Well, at least, this is true for :

 /pub/graphics/Voyager/whole.ps.Z

which I binary BITFTP'd from VEGA.HUT.FI

Any help would be appreciated. I haven't done much dabbling with **IX,
and know next-to-nothing about VAX/VMS.         Allan Hume