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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: untaring .tar-z files
- Message-ID: <8329@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 16:32:52 GMT
- References: <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <28074@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
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- In article <28074@optima.cs.arizona.edu> dsiegel@optima.UUCP (Dave Siegel) writes:
- > From article <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by ez006159@chip.ucdavis.edu (Logjam):
- > > 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)
- > >
- > $ mv filename.tar-z filename.tar.Z
- > $ uncompress filename.tar
- > $ tar -xvf filename.tar
- >
- zcat <filename.tar-z | tar -xvf -
- or
- pcat <filename.tar-z | tar -xvf -
-
- Depending on whether compress or pack has been used.
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