DOCUMENT:Q104491  04-MAR-1994  [W_NT]
TITLE   :Windows NT Does Not Provide TAR or COMPRESS for FTP Transfers
PRODUCT :Windows NT
PROD/VER:3.10
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:

 - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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If you download files with FTP from a UNIX or Internet server, the files
may be in .tar.Z format, which is a storage method that saves disk space.
These files will not be usable unless they are restored to their native
format.

TAR (tape archiver) and COMPRESS are standard utilities for concatenating
files and compressing files for storage on UNIX systems. They also provide
the facilities to restore files to their native format.

Windows NT does not include either the TAR or Compress utilities; however,
they are available through several sources.

The TAR and COMPRESS utilities are widely available on several different
anonymous FTP sites on the Internet.

NOTE: You cannot use PKUNZIP to uncompress a file compressed by the UNIX
COMPRESS utility.

Additional reference words: 3.10
KBCategory:
KBSubcategory: tpip

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