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- From: phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: untaring .tar-z files
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 10:04:10 GMT
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- From article <20009@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by ez006159@chip.ucdavis.edu (Logjam):
- > In article <1992Dec5.145930.26110@gandalf.ca> mramsell@gandalf.ca (Mark Ramsell) writes:
- >>In <103812@bu.edu> fkao@bu.edu (Frank Kao) writes:
- >>
- >>>I am having problems untaring archived unix files with the .tar-z extensions.
- >>>Your help on this subject is very much appreciated.
- >>>thanks
- >>>fkao
- >>
- >>I assume you mean .z files. You must uncompress the files before trying to
- >>untar them. The command for .z files is 'unpack' and the command for .Z
- >>files is 'uncompress'. See 'man' for futher info. See also 'pack' and
- >>'compress'.
- >
- >
- > 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?
- >
-
- A bit of lateral thinking goes far:-
-
- mv name.tar-z name.tar.Z
- uncompress name.tar.Z
- tar xvf name.tar
-
- da da....
-
-
- I must admit I mail the operator of an ftp server that store
- files this way and he said that it was becausew not all the
- software was from unix boxes. Although I still does see the point
- of it.
-
- Ps. there is and easier way than the above using unix redirection
- facilities
-
- uncompress < name.tar-z | tar xv etc...
-
- something like that :)) you probably guessed I'm not a unix
- guru.
-
-
- Dave.
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