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<[log in to unmask]>, John 
Pitman <[log in to unmask]> writing at 09:46:44 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>Somewhere in my mind I think the capability and programs exist, and 
>some web pages says it exists, but I am blowed if I can find them.
>
>Am I dreaming or ? I can find a .tar.gz file on my system, but how does 
>one create/expand such files?
>My problem is moving several hundred MB of ascii text data from the HP 
>to Windows....
>
>Thanks
>jp

I'm zipping on an HP Unix box with gzip, getting files with the 
extension .gz.

These unzip very nicely on my Windows PC via the free IZArc program at
http://www.izarc.org/

So if you can make .gzs on your HP3000 at all, you can certainly unpack 
them on a Windows PC.

If your ascii goes above 127, you may find you have the complexities of 
charsets to deal with (Roman 8 to whatever, and so on), and possible fun 
with numeric representations as well if your ascii isn't plain ascii 
text, but the 'expand' side, at least, of .gz on Windows needn't be 
problematic.
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