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theholts@care4free.net February 22nd, 2005 04:15 AM

WinZip
 
I have downloaded a large zipped file. On unzipping it, there were a number of zipped files inside. These all had the extension .z (rather than .zip); otherwise, the icon was that of WinZip. Yet my WinZip program would not recognise them. Please, can you help ?

Best Regards,
Martin Holt
theholts@care4free.net

Lord of the Rings February 22nd, 2005 05:30 AM

I thought the simple answer would be to manually add the zip at the end of it & try to unzip them. Make a backup 1st if uncertain.

theholts@care4free.net February 22nd, 2005 06:29 AM

WinZip
 
Thank you for your message. I did try that but still no joy........

Lord of the Rings February 22nd, 2005 06:43 AM

This is what I came up with: http://filext.com/detaillist.php?ext...&Submit3=Go%21

theholts@care4free.net February 22nd, 2005 08:10 AM

PicoZip
 
Thank you very much. I can now open these archives, but I cannot extract them. I'm not familiar with this. Do you know how to go on from opening them ?

Lord of the Rings February 22nd, 2005 08:49 AM

I really don't know!!! I did a google & these were my results:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...e+Search&meta=

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...G=Search&meta=

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=e...G=Search&meta=

I don't know what application they belong to but ... it's got me. Are you sure it's not a unix based app.?

theholts@care4free.net February 22nd, 2005 09:01 AM

Thank you
 
Thank you very much for your help. I'm sure they are not Unix files.........I think: how do you tell ?

noctaphile February 24th, 2005 02:01 PM

Filename Extensions
 
Traditionally, .z is used for files compressed with a Unix utility. I read this before, but I found it here also:

Quote:

.z Packed file (file name extension - using Pack/Unpackprogram)..lower case z..[Unix]
http://www.msc-inc.net/Documents/Bab.../Babel_V-Z.htm

pack is the name of a program/command commonly found on Unix systems. I thought WinZip handled all common compression schemes, but maybe not this one. In the past I was able to find all kinds of freeware for Windows that would decompress anything. Just look for something that handles packed files.

theholts@care4free.net February 25th, 2005 02:21 AM

Thank you
 
Thank you. Having tried everything I could, I left it, thinking that they must be Unix. Thanks for your message.

Limeplugged February 25th, 2005 02:31 PM

USE LINUX!!! One answer


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