TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (09/13/90)
Someone recently indicated that shrinkit can be used to uncompress unix .Z files that have been compressed with compress. Is there any particular trick to doing it? (I haven't tried it but I thought shrinkit only took files of a particular prodos filetype and internal structure.) Can it also be used to compress a file and produce a .Z compatible file? (The application is obvious: decreasing the communications line time for transferring large text files between a unix system and an apple system.) TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil
jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) (09/15/90)
Shrinkit-GS has the capability to read several types of archives besides
just NuFX and BLU. If you use ShrinkIt-GS, it will recognize and
properly decompress a .Z fille.
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>> Apple // Forever!!! <<TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (09/15/90)
Date: 14 September 1990 12:57 edt
From: Vernon Williams <vw3 at CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject: Re: .Z files and shrinkit
There's no trick to it at all. It seems that GS ShrinkIt looks at the file
and determines how it is archived! Pretty neat. Unfortunately, GSHK cannot
do archiving save that which it was designed for (NuFX). Not a really big
limitation at all though.
There must still be some kind of trick. I just downloaded a .Z file
from a unix system using kermit. Shrinkit 3.0.x (I forget if its 1 or 2
that I have) didn't recognize that there was any file to handle. Do I
need to download it with some particular file type? Or does in only
work with GS Shrinkit (I haven't bothered to capture that yet.)
TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.milv060q267@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David B Bandish) (09/15/90)
>There must still be some kind of trick. I just downloaded a .Z file >from a unix system using kermit. Shrinkit 3.0.x (I forget if its 1 or 2 >that I have) didn't recognize that there was any file to handle. Do I >need to download it with some particular file type? Or does in only >work with GS Shrinkit (I haven't bothered to capture that yet.) > >TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil Shrinkit 3.X only shows NuFX files, unless you hit OA-S, at which point it shows all files. DB
bkahn@archive.webo.dg.com (Bruce Kahn) (09/15/90)
In article <900913162235.743246@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>, TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes: |> Someone recently indicated that shrinkit can be used to uncompress unix |> .Z files that have been compressed with compress. Is there any |> particular trick to doing it? (I haven't tried it but I thought |> shrinkit only took files of a particular prodos filetype and internal |> structure.) Just open the .Z file as you would any other file (you may have to toggle the show all/archives only but thats nothing). |> Can it also be used to compress a file and produce a .Z |> compatible file? (The application is obvious: decreasing the |> communications line time for transferring large text files between a |> unix system and an apple system.) Nope but you can use Andy McFaddens NuLib program (available from your favorite anonymous FTP site or from the archives). A very nice program that think any Apple owning user shouldn't be without... |> |> TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil -- Bruce (bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com or kahn@adam.dg.com) Standard disclaimers apply, except where prohibited by law...
TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL (09/17/90)
Thanks to all those who told me how to uncompress unix .Z files using GS Shrinkit -- and for prompting me to finally getting around to getting it from the archives. Now when I get some more time I'll have to act on the second half of the suggestions for creating .Z files on the GS. One point that might be worth putting into the record: in transferring the .Z files from a unix system with kermit you have to remember to tell both kermits to treat them as binary files, not text files. It was also a bit of a nuisance to discover that Shrinkit uncompressed the .Z file into a ProDos BIN file (I'd rather it had come out as TXT), but since my WordPerfect can be told to read any type file as either text or WP that wasn't really a problem. TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil