Subject: Renaming of gzipped files
From: [email-masked] (Matt Welsh)
Date: 2 Jun 1993 11:19:17 -0400
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce,comp.os.linux

FYI. I assume that the Linux community will follow this trend as well.
Please, no questions on "How do I unpack a .gz file?" if this change
takes place. Thanks.

mdw

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From: [email-masked] (Noah Friedman)
To: [email-masked], [email-masked],
        [email-masked], [email-masked]
Subject: Gzipped files on prep.ai.mit.edu
Resent-From: [email-masked]

On June 02, all the gzipped files on prep.ai.mit.edu will be renamed to
have a `.gz' suffix instead of a `.z' suffix.  This change results from a
poll taken on Usenet about whether we should avoid conflicting with the
unix `pack' program's suffix. 

Mirror sites may wish to rename files ahead of time to avoid downloading
massive numbers of files unnecessarily.

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Matt Welsh, [email-masked]
"I never patronize bunny rabbits."