This area contains various gnu software since the Fall 1992 tapes. The FSF folks have switched to using GZIP for their compression. The command GUNZIP file.tar (where the original file is named file.tar-z) will decompress the files. The GZIP and GUNZIP images are in the tools area for VMS. The GZIP107.TAR_Z program is compressed with the older COMPRESS program (VMS versions also in the tools area) to make it available without first needing a working GZIP. Also later versions of gzip are present in ZIP archives, and gunzip is present in the tools area.