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GZIP

As you look around the net for software, you will come across a number of files with a .gz extension. This indicates that the file has been compressed with the GNU compression utility gzip. The program is subject to the GNU licence and may be obtained from:

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/gzip-1.2.4.tar

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