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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Mar 1994.
Re: TALK: .gz help?

Re: TALK: .gz help?

John Whitaker (whi...@bud.peinet.pe.ca) wrote:

: Okay, I have this .gz file, and I don't have a clue what to do with it...
: It's in my account, and it's called all.gz 
: I tryed: uncompress all.gz  but it says some wierd stuff.
: Can someone please help me?

: aTdHvAaNnKcSe
: -- 
:     /~~/~~/~~/~~  /~~/~~/~~/~~  /~~/~~/~~/~~                 
:    /~~           /~~           /~~              <<<<   The voice of the 
:   /~~/~~/~~/~~  /~~           /~~/~~/~~/~~      (.,.)    F U T U R E !!
:  /~~           /~~                    /~~  ____ooO Ooo______________   
: /~~/~~/~~/~~  /~~/~~/~~/~~  /~~/~~/~~/~~   whi...@bud.peinet.pe.ca      



I'm pretty sure it's just a different compression technique.  It's called
gzip and gunzip (sorta like pkzip and pkunzip for DOS).  Try this:

gunzip filname.gz

That should do it. :)
				DJ

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