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Grex Info Item 151: Uncompression program for dos for .Z files
Entered by skilkenn on Sat May 28 21:31:53 UTC 1994:

I am looking for a uncompress program that will work under dos that will
uncompress a .z file, I was wondering if anyone knew of one out?  Please
respond by sending mail to skilkenn@grex.cyberspace.org please  Thank you.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by davel on Sun May 29 01:45:42 1994:

There are a couple of different programs that produce files with .z or .Z
extensions.  There are DOS versions of compress, several of them, & I think
at work I've got a copy of a freeware gzip/gunzip that handles compress'd
files as well as gzip'd ones (for DOS also).  Someone probably has a
source somewhere, though.  Try the list of ftp sites in internet as a
starting place; also the FAQ lists on rtfm.mit.edu.

#2 of 4 by kentn on Sun May 29 02:54:28 1994:

Most of the GNU stuff comes from prep.ai.mit.edu.  I wouldn't be
surprised if you could find gzip there.  I also believe it's tucked
away in the the /SimTel/msdos/djgpp directory on oak.oakland.edu.

#3 of 4 by davel on Sun May 29 22:39:24 1994:

I think the djgpp programs won't run on lots of systems.  Conflicts with
lots of memory managers.

#4 of 4 by kentn on Sun May 29 23:26:22 1994:

Granted, but your first choice should be prep.ai.mit.edu, anyway.
Was just there via ftp and found it in /pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe.
 
-rw-r--r--  1 14910    wheel      119146 Aug 20  1993 gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
 
Don't bother doing a 'dir' or an 'ls' in this directory...it's huge.

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