Seth J. Morabito wrote:
To make a long story short, I found some _very_
interesting looking
stuff in the 'incoming' directory. Apparently tar will happily tar
that up for you as well, even though you can't get into it and browse
the files with ftp. Namely, files with names like 'RSX89A2.LZ.gz',
'rsx83b1.lz.gz', and 'rsx90a.lz.gz'.
Are these DECUS RSX tapes in some weird '.LZ' format? Or disk images?
I'm very much hoping they're disk images I'd be able to use with Bob
Supnik's PDP emulator (since I, sadly, lack PDP hardware at home right
now).
Obviously, I know how to un-gzip them, but I have no idea what the '.LZ'
extension is. It's not in the comp.compression FAQ either, that I could
find. Anyone know what they are?
There should be some sort of Lempel-Zev de-archiver somewhere in the
library. IIRC, it started with DEC but also became popular with CP/M
and TRSDOS and other 8-bit systems (LHARC etc.). The .gz files were
simply further compression of already compressed files. I'm not a
DEC guru, but ".lzh" used to be common extension before ".arc" or
".zip".
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.