[UW-GIS-L] confusing file

[Harvey Greenberg]

Z is an extra extension. Typically a file named "rainfall.clim" would 
compress to "rainfall.clim.Z"

A series of files or directories ,.e.g. "rainfalldir" would be converted 
to a single file named "rainfalldir.tar" whcih could be compressed to 
"rainfalldir.tar.Z". But there is no evidence of tar here.

It looks like you successfully uncompressed a .clim file. The remaining 
question is: What the hell is a .clim file? Check their web site or 
google to find out. If it needs to be reformatted for arc/info to see 
it, I can take a crack at it next week.

harvey

Cathy Reidy Liermann wrote:

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> Hi there,

>

> I’ve downloaded some gridded climate data from Univ. of Delaware, and 

> can not for the life of me figure out how to read the file.

>

> The documentation says “Important note: all files available here for 

> downloading have been "compressed" under Unix in order to save space. 

> A single compressed file has ".Z" extension. You may need to respecify 

> the ".Z" extension when you save a compressed file. Some of our 

> archives also have multiple files (such as time series) that are 

> "tar"ed under Unix and have a ".tar" extension. As a result, files 

> must be "untared" and/or "uncompressed" to return them to their 

> original ASCII format, before they may be used.”

>

> I’ve extracted from the .Z and the single file’s extension now is 

> .clim. When I open it in Word Pad, it doesn’t have the ascii header 

> information. Any suggestions?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Cathy

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