[Info-vax] quasijarus

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Aug 3 22:40:48 EDT 2009


Bill Cunningham wrote:
>     I have the old tapes to use with simh my vax emulator and the V7 version 
> of the Q os. But I can't find anything that will uncompress these .Z and .z 
> files. Not 7zip, zip, gzip, bzip2, compress, unpack. How do I get at these 
> files to put everything together?

.Z/.z indicates the LZW based Unix compress software.

You should be able to find that on plenty of *nix'es.

It is also available for VMS. But it may take a bit more time
to find it. If I remember correctly the filename is zcompress.c
(note that the VMS utility LZWCMP is not compatible).

Arne




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