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- From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: >.tar .Z formats?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.193011.3607@msc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:30:11 GMT
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- >These are unix file formats. if you are on a unix box...
- >foo.tar: tar xf foo.tar
- >foo.Z: uncompress foo.Z
- >foo.tar.Z (both above or...)
- > zcat foo.tar.Z | uncompress
- >
- >There are Mac tar and compress utilities on your favorite ftp server
- >(like
- >sumex, info-mac/util). Look for MacCompress and "Macintosh Tar".
-
- No- don't look for "Macintosh Tar", look for SunTar. It is much friendlier
- and more versatile. (And it's a Mac program, not a Sun program, in spite of
- the name.)
-
- Maynard Handley
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