Re: .gz to pk

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <5eqesc$9gj@news-central.tiac.net>,
William Waters <billtr@tiac.net> wrote:
>Help! Trying to unpack .gz files using gz2pk but it says it isn't  a gz 
>file. Also gz files are downloading as txt files. Is this right?

   No, gzip files are most definitely binary files. Downloading as
text will corrupt them. Text, html, uuencode (.uu or .uue), binscii
(.bsc, .bsq), binhex (.hqx) are text files; almost everything else is
binary.

Nathan Mates

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