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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.213333.20432@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Sep9.211050.24459@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Sep10.224012.25288@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:33:33 GMT
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- In <1992Sep10.224012.25288@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
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- >In article <1992Sep10.161628.14830@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes:
- >>
- >>The 'Z' is the compression from Unix. Type: 'uncompress youngones.Z'
- >>That'll get rid of the 'Z' and you can download it then to your PC. The thing
- >>is that if they compressed it using Unix, they might be telling you that it's
- >>a Unix file. Hope this helps...
-
- >What about the files on SIMTEL20 (and elsewhere) that have a .tar.Z extension?
- >Is there additional processing besides the decompression?
-
- Sure. Once you have it uncompressed, you need to run 'tar' on it to
- unarchive the software. Note that some tars will do this in one step
- by setting a flag, and that some tars will require you to pipe through
- zcat instead of using uncompress (which the system doesn't provide).
-
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