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I just fetched macpgp 2.3 from soda, and wound up with a file ending in the suffix "gz". This is a new one on me, and I don't know how to decode it. Can anybody inform me? Inside whatever it is is a binhexed compactor file, and I can deal with those formats, but the outside wrapper defies every decompressing utility I've got. Tom DeBoni deboni@llnl.gov
Tom thus said,
>I just fetched macpgp 2.3 from soda, and wound up with a file ending in
>the suffix "gz". This is a new one on me, and I don't know how to decode
>it. Can anybody inform me? Inside whatever it is is a binhexed compactor
>file, and I can deal with those formats, but the outside wrapper defies
>every decompressing utility I've got.
This is GNU's zip compression utility. I am not sure if a port to the mac
has been made, but the source code is available. However, I have the prog
available here at aql.gatech.edu /pub/cypherpunks/pgp/binaries in cpt.hqx
format. The source code for gzip is also available in /pub.
Hope this helps.
Paul
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Title 18 USC 2511 and 18 USC 2703 Protected -- Monitoring Absolutely Forbidden> > I just fetched macpgp 2.3 from soda, and wound up with a file ending in > the suffix "gz". This is a new one on me, and I don't know how to decode > it. Can anybody inform me? Inside whatever it is is a binhexed compactor > file, and I can deal with those formats, but the outside wrapper defies > every decompressing utility I've got. > > Tom DeBoni "gunzip" does the job. Fortunately for me, Netcom had it installed. Gunzip the file, send it to your home machine (I use "sz"), unstuff it and double-click the .sea file. This compression stuff--pun intended--is getting out of hand. Files are zipped, gzipped, binhexed, stuffed, and made into self-extracting archives! Seriously, I've had several of these associated with just one file. Mostly the compression is a waste, as the Internet already compresses (so I have been told), and for sure when I "sz" the gunzipped file to my home Mac for debinhexing, unstuffing, and self-extracting, my Supra modem has already tried in vain to compress the files for transmission! (I know, by the way, that binhexing is not compression, and that the .sea archives are a way to ship multiple files and folders, but, still....) MacPGP 2.3 is very nice, by the way! A wonderfuly "help" facility, and an even cleaner interface. -Tim -- .......................................................................... Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@netcom.com | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero 408-688-5409 | knowledge, reputations, information markets, W.A.S.T.E.: Aptos, CA | black markets, collapse of governments. Higher Power: 2^756839 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe available. Note: I put time and money into writing this posting. I hope you enjoy it.
>> one file. Mostly the compression is a waste, as the Internet already >> compresses (so I have been told), and for sure when I "sz" the You have been mislead; while Usenet News feeds are sometimes compressed, Internet connections in general are not. I have a citation of a paper somewhere (mentioned on the com-priv mailing list) which (if I recall correctly) said that less than 1/3 of the traffic over the NSFnet backbone used any kind of compression... >> compresses (so I have been told), and for sure when I "sz" the The compression is only *partly* for the benefit of reduced transmission time -- more often files at ftp sites are compressed to save disk space at the ftp site, and possibly to reduce ftp transit time to remote sites. (That said, there are some versions of ftpd, namely the wuarchive one, that given a foo.Z if you request foo it will automatically decompress it for you in case you don't have compress; I think the same support for gzip exists (is trivial in any case), though I don't know if many sites have it installed. _Mark_ <eichin@paycheck.cygnus.com> ... just me at home ...