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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:34:11 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com>, "James A. Taylor" <jataylor@lundahl.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Extracting WordPerfect?
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On Sunday, 20 December 1998 at 10:44:04 +1100, Jim Mock wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, James A. Taylor wrote:
>
>> When I downloaded WordPerfect I got the file GUILG00.GZ.
>> This seems like a funny name for the WordPerfect
>> archive is it the same file everybody else downloaded.
>>
>
> Yep.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Is gzip the correct utility to extract WordPerfect?
>>
>
> They provide instructions on download.com.. the page that has the link
> to download it..
>
> gunzip GUILG00.GZ ; tar -xvf GUILG00

That's what they say, and it works.  But it's not the way to do it.
It's slower than using tar xz, and it takes up *much* more space.

Greg
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