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- From: sunderma@cs.scarolina.edu (Jack Sunderman)
- Subject: Re: .Z files ---->what are they, what do I do with them?
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- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- 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: 11 Sep 92 16:36:14 GMT
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- evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans) writes:
-
- >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?
- >--
-
- Anthony,
-
- Now it sounds like you are really dealing with some unix software. As
- mentioned before the .Z is for the uncompress command. the .tar is
- created by using the tar command in unix. You should be able to do a man
- tar command to get the full explaination of tar. But the easiest way to
- un-tar the file is with the following command: tar -vfox filename.tar
- This should extract all the files from the .tar file and create the
- proper subdir too. Hope this helps too....
-
- Jack
-