SSJACK@ECUVM1.BITNET (07/05/90)
I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a PC based utility available for this? ======================================================================== Jack E. McCoy SSJACK@ECUVM1.BITNET Systems Programmer (919) 757 - 6401 East Carolina University Greenville, NC 27858 ========================================================================
WANCHO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Frank J. Wancho") (07/05/90)
Jack, The following files are available from this host via anonymous ftp or by formatted requests from LISTSERV@RPIECS or LISTSERV@NDSUVM1: PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> COMPRS16.ARC B 47101 880409 Unix-compatible compress/uncompress - 16 bit DECOMP2.ZIP B 17384 900430 Unix-compatible 16 bit uncompress, w/C source PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> PDTAR.ARC B 117152 880614 Read/write TAR files on PC TAR.ARC B 37392 871208 Read Unix TAR files on a PC PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER> PK361.EXE B 119598 880801 Fast file ARC make/extract PKPAK/PKUNPAK v3.61 PKZ110EU.EXE B 140116 900402 Katz's ZIP archive package v1.10, export vers. TARREAD.EXE B 14928 870820 Read Unix TAR files on a PC --Frank
08071TCP%MSU@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Doug Nelson) (07/06/90)
>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a >PC based utility available for this? There may be others, but PC/tar is included in FTP Software's PC/TCP package. It will even use rsh or rexec to access a tar file on a Unix system directly, without a separate file transfer step. Note that tar does not compress/uncompress files. If you are referring to compressed tar files (*.tar.Z), you'll need to find a PC version of uncompress (or zcat) as well. Doug Nelson Michigan State University
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) (07/06/90)
>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a >PC based utility available for this? Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network. Sun's PC_NFS also has a network TAR. If you want to "uncompress" a Unix .tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first. James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901
tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine) (07/07/90)
In article <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@vax.ftp.com writes: >>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a >>PC based utility available for this? > >Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble >Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network. Sun's >PC_NFS also has a network TAR. If you want to "uncompress" a Unix >.tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to >use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first. > >James B. VanBokkelen 26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA 01880 >FTP Software Inc. voice: (617) 246-0900 fax: (617) 246-0901 Implmentations of the (originally UNIX) utility "compress" are available for several micro systems. I personally know of one for the Amiga and one for the Mac. There should be one for PCs. Try comp.sys.ibm.pc... Tom Perrine (tep) |Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM Logicon |UUCP: nosc!hamachi!tots!tep Tactical and Training Systems Division |-or- sun!suntan!tots!tep San Diego CA |GENIE: T.PERRINE "Harried: with preschoolers" |+1 619 455 1330 Home of the _Tower Operator Training System_ as seen in the SunTech Journal.
gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) (07/07/90)
In <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) writes: >>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a >>PC based utility available for this? >Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble >Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network. >.... If you want to "uncompress" a Unix >.tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to >use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first. If you happen to have a c compiler for the pc, you can get compress.c off most any news archive site.... you can then uncompress large on the pc without having to wait for uncompressed files to download. Microsoft Quick-C can be had for peanuts..... if time is money, it's worth it. -- Glenn R. Stone gs26@prism.gatech.edu
dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale A. Weber) (07/10/90)
jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) writes: > >I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a > >PC based utility available for this? > > PC_NFS also has a network TAR. If you want to "uncompress" a Unix > .tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to > use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first. There is a very good 16 bit [de]compress utility for MS/PC-DOS. I use it all the time when dealing with compressed files from *NIX. It came without documentation so I tested it carefully before installing it on my BBS, but it works great and now my system can handle 12 bit _and_ 16 bit compressed files, all on my MS-DOS machine. I have no idea where this program is from or who the author is though. -- Internet: dalew@pdx.com OR dalew@twiki.pdx.com # The AS/400 Specialists UUCP: ..!{sun!nosun, tektronix}!tessi!twiki!dalew # WORK: A-38 Specialists Consulting Group, Inc. # Voice: +1(503)226-1662 P.O. Box 42157, Portland, OR 97242-0157 USA # FAX: +1(503)774-6348
tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) (07/11/90)
In article <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com>, jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) writes: > >I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a > >PC based utility available for this? > > Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble > Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network. Sun's > PC_NFS also has a network TAR. If you want to "uncompress" a Unix > .tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to > use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first. > The 16 bit compress distributed with BNEWS compiles fine on DOS. And works the same. Tim Brown nstar!comcon!tim