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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Just a moment of your time.
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 18:00:30 GMT
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References: <1sebi1INN9uf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
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In <1sebi1INN9uf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> edmudama@athena.mit.edu (Eric Danforth Mudama) writes:

>I tried to uncompress it, as is customary with any file named xxx.tar.z, and I
>got the error that it wasn't in compressed format.

A lower case z as extensions hints that the file was compress with GNU
gzip.  You need gunzip to uncompress it.  (It might be compressed with
System V pack, but gzip handles that too.)

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				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug
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