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- From: ashok@meds38956.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:04:00 GMT
- Organization: CWRU School of Medicine
- Lines: 52
- Message-ID: <ashok.149.724367040@meds38956.cwru.edu>
- References: <1992Dec11.031426.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com>
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- In article <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com>
- chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:
-
- >In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> torresce@craft.camp.
- >clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
-
- >>comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
- >>>This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
- >>>suspect someone here will know the answer. So here goes nothing...
- >>
- >>>What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z' (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
- >>>them usable? I assume they are archived. I guess I just need to know the
- >>>name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
- >>
- >>Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed? I think compressed or packed is
- >>small .z
- >>If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
- >>typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
- >>In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
-
- You're aren't quite right. The *.tar extension indicates a "tarred" archive
- that needn't be compressed at all. A *.tar.Z extension indicates a *.tar
- archive that has also been compressed with Unix compress.
-
- There are MSDOS "untar" and "uncompress" programs available. To handle a
- *.tar.Z file you would have to first uncompress the file with "uncompress"
- and then untar it using pdtar or an equivalent.
-
- >
- >There is also a .Z extension for a certain DOS compression program (just
- >called compress I think). It's used by some people because of it's
- >Windows compatibility (I guess pkzip isn't (or wasn't) windows compatible).
- >You don't have to be in Windows to uncompress, but you do have to have the
- >compress program.
-
- You got me completely lost here. *.Z files have nothing to do with
- Microsoft Windows. The last official release of PKZIP (1.10) will run
- within a Windows 3.x DOS box. It however will not handle *.Z files. This
- is similar to asking Unix compress to create *.zip files.
-
- To the original poster -- I'm sure that you can find DOS tools to handle
- *.tar and *.Z files at many sites. If you cannot, then FTP to
- "shasta.scl.cwru.edu" and look in the directory "dos/compression". There
- are tools available to handle both "*.tar" archives and "*.Z" compressed
- files.
-
- Ashok
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- Ashok Aiyar
- Department of Biochemistry
- CWRU School of Medicine
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