Subject: Files with .Z extension

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 Q: I have noticed that some directories at Garbo archives include
files that have a .Z extension. What are they?

 A: They are Unix files that are processed with compress,
uncompress, and zcat. The Garbo archives are on a Unix system, and
many these files are related to handling the PC files without having
first to transfer them to from the Unix mainframe to the PC. Please
see /unix/ts/0news_u.txt and ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn50.zip
(or whatever is the current version number) for more details and
instructions. Also try
   man compress
on a Unix system for information.

 A2: You can handle these compressed files also on your MS-DOS PC.
For that you need ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/comp430d.zip (or
whatever version is the latest). Note for text files that Unix and
MS-DOS use different eolns (end-of-lines). You may filter them
properly e.g. with unix2pc.exe. You'll find this file within
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfilt24.zip (or whatever version number
is current).
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