Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 1996 08:00:36 -0500
Message-Id:	<199610311300.IAA16129@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961031075626.22915F-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:58:32 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: gcc and capital letters

> .Z is the extension given by `compress'.  Gzip recognizes it because it 
> can uncompress files compressed by `compress'.  And since on MSDOS .z and 
> .Z are the same extension, it also recognizes the lower-case variety.

Actually, gzip used to *put* .z on files, but stopped doing that
because (1) case insensitive file systems, and (2) SYSV used .z for
"pack" format.

It recognizes .z because of pack format and it's old choice of
extension.

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