Re: Problem uncompressing files...

Erik Schoenfelder (schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Fri, 3 Feb 1995 15:58:25 +0100

Hi!

Dimitrius> What is the compression program used on:

Dimitrius> snmp-mib.doc.ps.z
Dimitrius> scotty-1.2.0.tar.gz
Dimitrius> snmp-mib.tar.z

Dimitrius> The .tar isn't a problem but the .z is???

.z (old style) and .gz (new style) are suffixes appendend by the
``gzip'' compressor from the GNU project (.z is used by the old pack
program too and therefore .gz is now preferred).

gzip can be found on the various GNU mirror sites, including our site
as ftp://ftp.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.3.tar .

Have fun.
Erik

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Or as gzip-1.2.3999985 on other sites -- sorry, could not resist ;-)