uncompressing .Z files in a DOS environment

[rich campoamor]

I am trying to unCOMPRESS several text-only files in an MS-DOS environment

that have been COMPRESSed with UNIX COMPRESS.  I have tried to unCOMPRESS

these files using a program called DECOMP2 which never seems to uncompress

the .Z file but it does succeed at deallocating all available clusters on

the current drive my hard drive.

 

Is there a better (ie a way that actually works :-) ) to accomplish this

task?  The only identifying marks on my current executable come from the

source code provided with it.  There is this comment in the source:

 

     /*

      * compress.c - File compression ala IEEE Computer, June 1984.

      *

      * Authors: Spencer W. Thomas (decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas)

      *    Jim McKie   (decvax!mcvax!jim)

      *    Steve Davies    (decvax!vax135!petsd!peora!srd)

      *    Ken Turkowski   (decvax!decwrl!turtlevax!ken)

      *    James A. Woods    (decvax!ihnp4!ames!jaw)

      *    Joe Orost   (decvax!vax135!petsd!joe)

      *

      * modified for MS-DOS, decompression only, by B.D. Ripley, 1/90

      *    b.d.ripley at uk.ac.strath.vaxa

      */

 

The process that I am going through is this:

 

   FTP files (via a VAX system)

   download to the PC using Kermit

   attempt to run DECOMP2 -- watch it *not* work.

 

Suggestions/responses will be summarized if necessary.

 

AND...no, i do not have direct access to a UNIX system (unfortunately)

 

 

rich

 

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