From: cosmos@yabbs
To: Dauber@yabbs
Subject: re: <no title>
Date: Wed Mar  9 05:47:34 1994
In message <no title>, Dauber said:
> We don't have write access to Usenet news at my college, just read access. 
> Is there a BBS or Freenet or something I can Telnet to that has the Usenet 
> news--both read AND WRITE??

NIce college.  Try the freenets or better yet, nyx.cs.du.edu (I 
think)...telnet to that site and login as it tells you.  Follow the 
directions to get an account.

> 
> Also, a friend of mine just downloaded a file with the extension GZ.  What 
> does he need to extract it?  He sez it's MS-DOS format.  WHere can I get a 
> GZ extractor??
> It was a text file, so I guess it doesn't matter what GZ it
>  is...preferrably VMS, Mac or Mess-DOS.  Perhaps Unix, I guess, but we 
> are having trouble with our Unix system....
> 
> help, pleez?


MS-DOS in gzip format???   I doubt it.  Anyways, use gzip to extract it.  
Use the UNIX command line to extract it.

%gzip -dv file.gz


Cosmos