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How do I uncompress data from the CD? How big will uncompressed files be?

April 26, 2017big CD Data files uncompress uncompressed

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How do I uncompress data from the CD? How big will uncompressed files be?

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The CD contains compressed binary data files, with *.GZ extensions. To uncompress any of these files and write the uncompressed binary file to your machine, use: gunzip -vc /cdrom_path/DATAFILE.