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- From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Q: .tar.Z files that won't unpack under VMS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162313.4169@wkuvx1.bitnet>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:23:13 CDT
- References: <23NOV199211193139@seqvax.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
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- In article <23NOV199211193139@seqvax.caltech.edu>, mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog) writes:
- > I frequently run into .tar.Z files that were put together on Sparcs that will
- > not unpack and untar correctly under VMS. They go through lzdcmp without
- > posting any error mesages, but then blow up in tar. Either I'm throwing the
- > wrong switches or there is some bug/incompatibility in my copy of lzdcmp or
- > tar.
- >
- It should work if you use GNU compress and not LZDCMP. You can get
- GNU compress for VMS via e-mail by sending the following command in
- the body of a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:
-
- SEND COMPRESS
-
- You can also get it via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need:
-
- [.MACRO32]LZDCMP.EXE
- [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]COMPRESS.BCK_Z
-
- Hunter
- ------
- Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
- goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
-