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970506: Uncompress Z file

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  • Subject: 970506: Uncompress Z file
  • Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 19:05:24 -0600
>From: Henry Yeung <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 199705062324.RAA17686 netCDF compress

Henry,

>I tried to uncompress "netcdf-2_4_3_tar.Z" file by using WinZip 6.2.

Does WinZip 6.2 support files compressed with the Unix compress function?

>But 
>I get a huge file with all the readme file and source code in it. Is 
>there anyway to uncompress it to a list of different files also.

Sounds like WinZip does not support files compressed with compress.  Can
you get a freeware version of uncompress somewhere?

>Thanks.

Tom Yoksas