files with .vt.Z

Paul Foerster (pau...@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
: >How do you view file with the .vt.Z (new_year.vt.Z)?
: >I do have uudecode.  I just don't know what to do.
: >Any help would be nice.

: ... the subject line of such a post sometimes reads: <file.vt.Z.uue>
: This means that after saving the article you have to do the following things:

: 1. uudecode <file.vt.Z.uue> which creates <file.vt.Z>
: 2. gzip -dv <file.vt.Z> which creates <file.vt> and _REPLACES_ the .Z file
:    (al least on a DOSe)
: 3. cat <file.vt> or type <file.vt>. On a PC make sure you have ANSI.SYS loaded 
:    in your CONFIG.SYS file. You'll probably also want to convert these files 
:    to DOS-ASCII. Use a CR/LF converter (e.g. FLIP.EXE from FLIP1EXE.ZIP) to do 
:    this. Be sure to use the binary option because of the escape codes.

	On a unix system, if you have file.vt.Z, you can use 
'uncompress', eg. uncompress file.vt.Z, this replaces file.vt.Z with 
file.vt, then view it with 'cat'  *OR* you can skip the uncompress step 
and view it with 'zcat', eg. zcat file.vt.Z

	To view it slowly, use: zcat file.vt.Z | cat -u

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