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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!salt
- From: salt@shell.portal.com (avram rudy vener)
- Subject: Re: Need help reading articles
- Message-ID: <C1DuJs.9B3@unix.portal.com>
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- References: <1993Jan22.133141.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> <C19wyq.M87@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:57:28 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- >In <1993Jan22.133141.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu> cmazzurco@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
- >
- >>I recently read an article posted by jamie@csd.uwo.ca which said that if one
- >>some back letters ni the alt.backrubs section, they could ftp to
- >>ftp.csd.uwo.ca, i did this and i downloaded some of the articles, but i am not
- >>sure how to read them, when i try and read them all I get is garbled
- >>characters, if anyone has any advice i could use some...
- >
- > Thanks
- I just looked at the files (and downloaded the one on oils). These files all
- have the .Z extension which means they have been compressed. To uncompress
- them execute 'compress topic.Z' or 'compress -d topic.Z'. The result will
- be the ASCII file 'topic'.
-
- Rudy
-