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Subject: Re: Off topic, but ....

Author: Peter Herttrich

Date: 03:52:20 10/19/98

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On October 16, 1998 at 10:07:54, Bruce Cleaver wrote:

>
>On October 16, 1998 at 07:01:07, Peter Herttrich wrote:
>
>>just found in the net a chess-collection-file with
>>the .pgz ending. It's NOT zip, compress, zoo or any other
>>format, which i know.
>>Can someone enlighten me?
>>
>>Must be a very lousy compression, i can read some
>>words in the archive.
>>
>>tnx
>>peter
>
>
>Hello, Peter!
>
>I bet the files you have are compressed using the freeware GZIP (and can be
>uncompressed using GUNZIP).  The program takes the 3 letter file extension,  and
>changes the last letter to a 'Z'.  So you probably have some FILENAME.PGN stuff
>gzipp'd to FILENAME.PGZ.  Just search on the web for "GUNZIP.EXE" and you'll be
>able to download the executables.
>
>
>Bruce

Nope, of course I have checked gzip/gunzip, i use LINUX so i know
this tool.

Peter



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