Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:58:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: Richard Slobod <71231 DOT 104 AT CompuServe DOT COM>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc and capital letters
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

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

.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.