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| I've got a number of apparently compressed files from an older AIX | machine, with '.z' extentions (not .Z), that file reports as 'packed data, | xxxxxxxxx characters originally'. I don't know how they were generated | (the guy that did that is no longer working here, and appears to be | unreachable). Neither gzip nor ncompress can do anything with these. | | Does anyone have any idea how to uncompress them on a Linux system? Yeah; those come from the old "pack" command, which has pretty much been dropped because we have such better compression programs now. A quick look around a number of systems (linux and BSD) where I have accounts shows that they all have an "unpack" command, though none of them has "pack". However, a quick check of unpack's behavior implies that it probably isn't the old command of that name. I wonder if pack/unpack are lying around in some online archive?
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