in reply to Re^4: Decoding .z and .gz files
in thread Decoding .z and .gz files

There's the little unix utility file, which you can ask to make an 'educated' guess, if you're unsure what format a particular file is. Running it on the binary data you posted (which I saved as the file 606574), it says :

$ file 606574 606574: compress'd data 16 bits

So, as Burak noted, you'd have to use an external program like gzip (or gunzip, etc.) which does handle "compress'd" (i.e. .Z) files. Trying to uncompress the file gives

$ gzip -dc 606574 CC0000000000_gvap-infsbil002_1501071006/SunOS0000644000000000000000000 +0000000105507 gzip: 606574: corrupt input.

which looks very much like the beginning of a tar file... (the 'corrupt input' is to be expected, and can be ignored here)