[Towertalk] The Meaning of GZ

[ccc@space.mit.edu (Chuck Counselman)]

>  > I have asked a couple of administrators what .gz means, but no one has
>  > answered yet.  If it's a zip application, I don't have it...


It stands for GnuZip, a Free Software, open-source version of the 
proprietary Zip.  See
<http://www.umich.edu/~archive/msdos/compression/gnuzip/>
or do a Google search.  It's very widely available.

-Chuck, W1HIS