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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!chsun!bernina!dapor
- From: dapor@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Carlo Dapor)
- Subject: Re: recovering files with .tar-z extensions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.112736.4613@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Sender: Carlo Dapor
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <103822@bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:27:36 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- Hi!
-
- I think the problem is the following: the files are 'compressed'
- tar files, i.e. they have been tar'ed and compressed;
-
- You better rename these files to .tar.Z. Now you can 'uncompress'
- them, as usual like this:
-
- uncompress foo-file.tar.Z
-
- You get the tar-file, in this very case it'll be foo-file.tar
- I guess I don't have to tell you how to process tar files.
-
- To speed up all this, and to save some space you may have a look
- at it - or even extract the file with this one:
-
- zcat foo-file.tar.Z | tar tfv - | more # list the archive
- zcat foo-file.tar.Z | tar xfv - # extract them
-
- If this doesn't work, you may have got garbage files, sorry.
-
- Bonne chance, as Frenchmen'd say :-)
-
- bye
- -carlo
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