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- From: dsiegel@optima.UUCP (Dave Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: untaring .tar-z files
- Message-ID: <28074@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 09:04:28 GMT
- References: <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- From article <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by ez006159@chip.ucdavis.edu (Logjam):
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- > No, he means .tar-z I just got some files from wuarchive.wustl.edu, and
- > they are all done with tar-z. Now what can I do with them? They don't
- > respond to unpack, uncompress, or tar (or whatever)
- >
- > So, what do you do?
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- in unix..
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- $ mv filename.tar-z filename.tar.Z
- $ uncompress filename.tar
- $ tar -xvf filename.tar
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- i got some benchmarks compressed like that once. that's all I did. Your mileage may vary.
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- -dave
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- Dave Siegel dsiegel@seagull.sky.tucson.az.us Computer Engr Maj, UofAz dsiegel@cs.arizona.edu
- Unix Systems, BioTec, UofAz dsiegel@biosci.arizona.edu VP, Hardware and Computing Knowledge Society dsiegel@hacks.arizona.edu
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