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From: lvirden@pro-tcc.UUCP (Larry Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: File tar.Z
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Date: 1 Oct 89 21:44:23 GMT
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Network Comment: to #636 by ptrepan3@ub.d.umn.edu

The .Z indicates that a program called compress was used on the file.
If the file is ASCII, THEN maybe btoa or uuencode was used on it.  Otherwise,
you need one of the LZW compress programs - there is one on apple2-l that
works for the ECP16/APW environment.  After you get the file uncompressed
though, you have a file which contains a series of files concatenated
together in a 'tape archive' format.  I would suggest checking around to 
find a program to unarchive the files before you procede very much further -
I know of Mac versions, MS-DOS versions, Unix versions, and I believe Amiga
versions but I have never heard of anyone porting it to GS/OS yet.
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