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

Re: TALK: .gz help?

In article <2n4d40$ej...@bud.peinet.pe.ca>, John Whitaker 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?

Yeah - this is not your average compressed file - this was compressed using
gzip - the zip program created by GNU.  You'll need gunzip to uncompress it.
If you don't have gunzip at your site, you can get it via anonymous ftp from
various places (can't think of any off the top of my head).

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