Re: uncompressing GNU-Zip files on a IIGS - how!?

[behrenss@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Soenke Behrens)]

larry dawson (ldawson@nde.unl.edu) wrote:

: I've found a lot of text files in archives with an extension of.gz and have
: not been able to uncompress then with PMPZip.  Does anyone know if there is

There is not, gzip has not been ported. It will probably be ported when
C 2.0.2 is there, I gave up on it with 2.0.1 because of ... well, you guess it.

: - only 'tar' compressed files.  Is there something our system's operator 
: can add that will delete the need of doing it on my own computer?

Yes, certainly. Have him add the gzip package. You can then put it into say
compress format.

Note: GSHK doesn't always handle compress (.Z) right ... but you can also
plain zip files on a Unix machine, or zoo them, or lha them ....

Soenke

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