Welcome to the Dept of Statistics, University of Oxford.


You will see the following conventions in file types

file.Z		a compressed file. Use binary transfer, then uncompress
file.tar.Z	a compressed directory tree.  Binary, uncompress, tar xvf file.tar
file.sh.Z	a compressed shar file. Binary, uncompress then sh file.sh
file.shar.Z	ditto
file.gz		a gzipped file. Use binary transfer, then gunzip.
file.ps		a PostScript printable file.  Often compressed (.ps.Z or .ps.gz)

For example:

auk% ftp markov.stats.ox.ac.uk

ftp> cd pub/S
ftp> binary
ftp> get classif.sh.Z
ftp> quit
auk% uncompress classif.sh.Z
auk% sh classif.sh