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- From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
- Message-ID: <9212142492@fcshome.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 13:48:30 GMT
- References: <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
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- Alex "Mystic" Soto (torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu) wrote:
- : 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'
-
- BUZZ! sorry, the ".Z" extension is used by compress. The ".z" extension
- is used by pack. Files made with tar can have any ole extension you like,
- but by convention it's ".tar". Therefore, a compressed and tarred
- archive would be "archive.tar.Z".
-