ftp.aol.com:/pub/compress/ibmpc/readme.txt


The "gzip124.zip" archive contains a program to "unzip"
Lempel-Ziv compressed files.  These kind of files are
usually indicated with the ".Z" or ".gz" extension on
Internet FTP hosts.  It requires the newer version of
the "unzip.exe", which is included in this same directory.

Both of these files are uploaded from the SimTel archives
at oak.oakland.edu.  Original paths were:
        /SimTel/msdos/UNZIP.EXE
        /SimTel/msdos/compress/gzip124.zip
You may also pull these files directly from the source if
you so wish.

After extracting the archive, you need to rename (or copy)
the "gzip.exe" to "gunzip.exe".  After this has been done,
files with a ".z" or ".gz" extension can be dragged and
dropped on the "gunzip" program and uncompressed.

Word of caution: text file downloaded in a compressed
format from Unix systems will probably end lines with
a bare newline.  DOS expects a return-newline 2 character
combination.  This translation is done automatically by
AOL's FTP (it's the reason why file sizes go over 100%),
but not when you download a compressed image.  If you
"more" one of these files from DOS, you will see each
line advances down the screen, but does not return to
the left margin.  Use an editor to rewrite the file(s)
in a DOS friendly manner.

Hope this helps,

-- Bob    17 Nov 94