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From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison)
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Jake Patterson <jpatters@mole.uvm.edu> wrote:
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>That was great!  I have a hint though.  You can avoid having to uncompress
>the file by using zcat instead of cat.  Just type 'zcat aquarium.vt.Z'  This 
>saves alot of disk space! (ascii animations compress very well, sometimes as
>much as 10 to 1)

   You can view animations, color pics, and regular ASCII pic, whether 
they are .Z or .gz with zact and gzcat.  It's a real space saver.

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