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- From: cedler@boi.hp.com (Chris Edler)
- Subject: Re: Help: *.tar.Z
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:22:14 GMT
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- Marbun,Leo P (marbun@envmsa.eas.asu.edu) wrote:
- : Hi,
- :
- : I was trying to get some programs from anonymous ftp sites, and found out
- : that most files for unix are under *.tar.Z name. Please let me know how
- : to make the files executable? Do I need a tar.Z archiver? I can't seem to
- : find it in the ftp site. Let me know where I could get the proper archiver
- : (Unix that I run is Ultrix version).
- :
- : Thanks.
- :
- : Leo.
- :
-
- Those files are both compressed and tar-ed, I believe. You need to first
- run ucompress on them (the Z suffix indicates that they were lastly
- compressed), and then un-archive them using tar.
-
- -Chris
-
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- Christopher Edler Hewlett-Packard Company
- cedler@boi.hp.com Boise, Idaho USA
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