Unix Compressed File... How to decompress
 

I have a file that the finder says is a unix compressed file and Ican't seem to uncompress it. Any thoughts as to how I uncompress it? I have stuffit deluxe 7 and it doesn't do it.

thanks

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What is it's suffix? .tgz? .gz? .zip? .bzip? .tar? Something else?

data.z is the file's name.

Try using 'uncompress data.z' in a Terminal window.

It didn't work either, so I assume that the file really isn't that. Any chance you know of a program that can tell me what exactly this file is?
thanks

Thought.. if .gz is for gnuzip, .z might just be old zip. Try in the Terminal: unzip data.z

Unzip isn't a command it understands.....

Do: whereis unzip
It should be there..

yellow% whereis unzip
/usr/bin/unzip

Anyway, do this instead:

/usr/bin/unzip data.z

[richard-lettaus-Computer:~] richardl% /usr/bin/unzip/ DATA.Z
/usr/bin/unzip/: Command not found.

Not /usr/bin/unzip/... /usr/bin/unzip

richardl% /user/bin/unzip DATA.Z
/user/bin/unzip: Command not found.

Not /user/bin/unzip... /usr/bin/unzip

Copy & Paste Me: /usr/bin/unzip DATA.Z

richardl% /usr/bin/unzip DATA.Z
/usr/bin/unzip: Command not found.

Alrighty.. what version of OS X are you using? Did you not install the BSD Subsystem when you installed it? For example, what do you get if you do: whereis ssh

yellow% whereis ssh
/usr/bin/ssh

Here is what I get

/usr/bin/ssh

10.2.8

Thanks for all the help

/usr/bin/unzip comes from the Developer Tools (as seen from /Library/Receipts/DevTools.pkg)
so I guess that rmletc wouldn't have it.

rmletc, please show us the results of the following two commands in a Terminal window:

file data.z
uncompress data.z

That's really odd.. I checked some vanilla Jaguar installs that don't have DevTools and unzip is there. <shrug>

Aren't "data.z" files part of Windows InstallShield packages? You know, there's a "setup.exe" file and a bunch of other files. I don't have a Windows machine handy, but from my PC days, but I seem to remember *.z files showing up there.

Where did you get the file you're trying to decompress?

If you've installed the BSD package, the best way to find out what a file contains is the file command; open Terminal and simply do
Of course, if you don't have the BSD package installed, file isn't installed. If that's the case, answering frankko's question may be of definite help here.

well maybe you should do a "file data.Z" and if it says somthing like "compress'd data ...." then just use gunzip for it

The problem with uncompress is that the extension must be upper case Z or it will not work. So, assuming that uncompress is installed, type
uncompress data.Z

Since the file system is case insensitive, you do not need to rename the file for this to work.