Re: Reading files on ground mirror

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <66766cf5-7587-4a17-a59b-3d95529ec29a@s27g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
Polymorph  <polymorph69@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Jan 24, 1:47�pm, Smohn Jith <craigfakem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>BluPhoenyx wrote:
>> Smohn Jith wrote:
>>> There's a bunch of files on apple2.org.za mirrors that don't seem to
>>> be any kind of readable format. �I'm particularly interested in these:
>>>
>>>http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Prog...
>>
>> These files are news group posts. I am able to view them in Midnight
>> Commander in Linux.
>
>I downloaded those files and yes, they are simply text files.

Actually, they're gzipped text files; you'll need to decompress them first. 
It doesn't help that they're missing the .gz extension that would identify
them as such.  For Windows, most recent archiving programs handle gzip; for
Linux and Mac OS X, gzip and gunzip should both be available at the command
line.

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