06davis@ac.dal.ca (01/28/91)
sorry folks, I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup to ask this question, but I've been bombing around the FTP sites and have found files with extentions like .tar and .Z and have wondered if this is a unix-style archive format. If it is I would be interested in getting the dearchiving program or at least some idea where I could obtain it. Thanks in advance, Davis Bennett
Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) (01/28/91)
06davis@ac.dal.ca writes: >sorry folks, > I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup to ask this question, >but I've been bombing around the FTP sites and have found files with extentions ^^^^^^^ well, well, well... >like .tar and .Z and have wondered if this is a unix-style archive format. If >it is I would be interested in getting the dearchiving program or at least some >idea where I could obtain it. .tar files are archieved with the tar command. To extract them use tar xvof <file> where tar ist the command, x means extract, v verbose (bla, bla), o owner (to make sure you are the owner afterwards, important!) and f use file (otherwise tar thinks you use a tape) and <file> is the filename WITH the .tar suffix. .Z means that the file is compressed with the compress command. Use uncompress to uncompress it. (Somehow logic) By the way: RTFM (read the fu* manuals.. ;-) ) for *much* more info. Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ | Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [Geb. 02/21/68] | | inhouse: faramir!gemoe uucp: ...(unido!)uniol!gmoeller | |DOMAIN: gerhard.moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de | |BITNET: gmoeller%arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de@DOLUNI1 (106495@DOLUNI1) | +-----------------------> the medium is the message <-----------------------+