From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gcc and capital letters
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:31:50 -0800
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Richard Slobod wrote:
> 
> "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >.z     gzip archive
> >.Z     compress archive (totally different format)
> 
> The normal extension for a gzip archive is .gz; I believe .z indicates
> a pack archive.

True; I was referring to the standard extensions under DOS gzip when the
file already has an extension.  For example:

readme.1st -> readme.1sz
stuff.tar -> stuff.taz

.gz is of course the most common under Unix, but .z also seems to be
recognized.  :)

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