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- From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
- Subject: Re: untaring .tar-z files
- Organization: Unix in NYC
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 07:09:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.070917.14518@jpradley.jpr.com>
- References: <103812@bu.edu> <1992Dec5.145930.26110@gandalf.ca> <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- In article <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez006159@chip.ucdavis.edu (Logjam) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
-
- What's the magic number on these files?
-
- That would be the first two bytes seen when you do
- hd file.tar-z | sed 1q
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