How to decompress .Z file?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Hyunchul Kim <sundol at sfc.keio.ac.jp> wrote:
>  How can .Z file be decompressed?

The old unix program compress used to generate these files.

  http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/ncompress

You'll find the command line programs gzip/gunzip/zcat can decompress
them too.

>  According to python library reference, .Z file might not be
>  supported by python, yet.

Unfortunately the python gzip library doesn't read .Z files.

I'd pipe the data to zcat using subprocess to decompress from python.

I haven't used a .Z files for many many years - where are you getting
them from?

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