https://www.ingber.com/utils_file_formats.txt Welcome to Lester Ingber's Archive https://www.ingber.com/ If you have requested a UNIX-compressed file of type FILE.Z these files have been converted to gzip-compressed files of type FILE.gz Some more recent files are also in PDF format FILE.pdf Any files converted from FILE.gz to FILE.pdf are present for backwards compatability. Please retry your download using these modifications. New files generally will be in PDF format. To download gzip for any operating system (now standard on most systems) go to http://www.gzip.org http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html gzip (`gunzip` or `gzip -d`) also will expand UNIX-compressed and zip-compressed files (not archives), i.e., FILE.gz, FILE.Z, and FILE.zip files. After decompressing, you will be left with a file like file.ps which is a PostScript file, or file.tar which is a tar file, or file.shar which is a shar file, or file.txt which is a simple ASCII text file. A PostScript/Ghostscript utility is required to view or print a file.ps that is left. To download Ghostscript viewers or tools for any operating system go to http://www.aladdin.com http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html Note that Ghostscript comes with a utility to convert PostScript to PDF. Acroread or ghostscript is required to view or print a file.pdf in PDF format. To download Acroread viewers for any operating system go to http://www.adobe.com/ Tools that come with Ghostscript can convert .ps files into .pdf files. Note that .ps.gz files typically are about half the size of .pdf.gz files, so this archive has mostly .ps.gz files. The tar utility expands file.tar into a directory of files. ON UNIX systems you can simply use `tar xf file.tar` or `tar -xf file.tar`. To download the tar utility for any operating system go to http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html The shar utility expands file.shar into a directory of files. On UNIX systems you can simply use `sh file.shar`. To download the shar utility for any operating system go to http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/sharutils.html The zip utility expands file.zip into a file or a directory of files, depending on how file.zip was prepared. To download the zip utility for any operating system go to http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-2.html Zip files are about the same size as gzip files. More information and direct links to these codes are given in https://www.ingber.com/utils_codes.html https://www.ingber.com/utils_codes.txt For example, a URL is given to convert UNIX txt files to DOS format. Thanks. Lester Copyright (c) 1994-2015 Lester Ingber. All Rights Reserved. $Id: utils_file_formats.txt,v 1.12 2010/07/17 02:01:46 ingber Exp ingber $