From: lefty@apple.com (Lefty)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 09:05:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Macpgp 2.3
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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.

It's compressed with the gnu utility gzip, as Tim May and Paul Goggin have
pointed out.

However, as they failed to mention, soda at least will decompress .gz files
on the fly.  If you want to pull down the file "xxxx.yyyy.gz", issue the
command "get xxxx.yyyy" (i.e. leave off the .gz suffix) and soda will unzip
it for you as it ftp's it down.

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