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From: neilg@kits.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Decompression help!
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1993 20:12:30 GMT
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tulled@lagrange.its.rpi.edu (David Michael Tuller) writes:

>I know this doesn't belong here strictly, but ... I am trying to decompress
>a .Z file that I got from an ftp site. What is the UNIX command to do it?
>Thanks for your help.

 Try "uncompress <filename>". That's the opposite of "compress". Some
systems have "zcat <filename>" which doesn't trash the compressed
version after decompressing. You can also get implementations of
compress for Mac and DOS machines.

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
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