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Most endings on FTP sites or Fish disks tell you that the file is compressed
and/or is an archive containing more than one file. Some programs even
archive whole disks. Frequently found endings and programs to handle the
related files are:
- .sfx
- Compressed archives which are included in an executable program: Just call
the program and it will extract itself (sfx = self extract)
- .lha
- .lzh
- Compressed archives; recommended: LhA (`util/arc/LhA_e138.run' on Aminet
or Fish disk 715) or Lx (`util/arc/lx100.lha' on Aminet), Unix version
available (`misc/unix/lha-1.00.tar.Z')
- .dms
- Disks compressed using DMS (`util/arc/dms111.sfx' on Aminet or
Fish disk 406)
- .zom
- Disks compressed using Zoom (`util/arc/Zoom_5.4.lha' on Aminet, Fish
disk 682); an older version which you probably need for uncompressing
PasTeX is found on Fish disk 459.
- .zoo
- Compressed archive; recommended: Zoo (`util/arc/zpp2-10.lzh' on Aminet
or Fish disk 527)
- .Z
- .z
- .gz
- Compressed files; recommended gzip (`util/pack/gzip124x.lha' on
Aminet), note that this are Unix files in most cases
- .tar
- Acrhive; recommended: tar (`util/arc/tar.lha' or
`util/arc/gtar10.lha' on Aminet or Fish disk 445), note that tar is
a Unix archiver and you often find soething like
.tar.Z.
- .arj
- Compressed archive; recommended unarj (`util/arc/unarj-0.5.lha' on
Aminet)
- .zip
- Compressed archive; recommended UnZip (`util/arc/unzip-5.1.lha' on
Aminet), note that this are MS-Dos archives in most cases
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