anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) (11/10/90)
I'm looking for an msdos uncompressing utility. I have several "blah.tar.Z" files on my hard drive and I need to uncompress them (obviously). Any suggestions? Thanks.
w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) (11/11/90)
In article <2693@ux.acs.umn.edu> anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) writes: >I'm looking for an msdos uncompressing utility. I have several "blah.tar.Z" >files on my hard drive and I need to uncompress them (obviously). >Any suggestions? WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.2.0.74] Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== COMP430D.ZIP B 20241 901013 Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat This file is also available from Detroit Download Central. Keith --- Keith Petersen Co-SysOp, Detroit Download Central 313-885-3956 (212/V22bis/HST/V32/V42bis) Internet: w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu, w8sdz@eddie.mit.edu, w8sdz@brl.mil BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) (11/11/90)
In article <2693@ux.acs.umn.edu> anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) writes: >I'm looking for an msdos uncompressing utility. I have several "blah.tar.Z" >files on my hard drive and I need to uncompress them (obviously). >Any suggestions? >Thanks. COMP430D.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat COMPRESS.C PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Unix-compatible compress/uncompress COMPRS12.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Unix-compatible compress/uncompress - 12 bit COMPRS16.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Unix-compatible compress/uncompress - 16 bit DECOMP2.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> Unix-compatible 16 bit uncompress, w/C source COMPRS12.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBO-C> Unix-compatible compress/uncompress - 12 bit DETAR11.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Process a TAR file on PC PAX2EXE.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for MS-DOS PDTAR.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Read/write TAR files on PC TAR.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Unix-compatible TAR archive maker/extractor TARREAD.EXE PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER> Read Unix TAR files on a PC These are all available at simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory listed above (PD1:<MSDOS.xxxxx> ) or at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in mirrors/msdos/xxxxx. If anyone knows of any other mirrored archives of Simtel20, please let me know and I'll add them to this generic response. Thanks. -- Mike Castle | Life is like a clock: You can work constantly and be Nexus | right all the time, or not work at all and be right S087891@UMRVMA.UMR.EDU | at least twice a day. mcastle@cs.umr.edu | Love does not exist anymore.
jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) (11/11/90)
In an article w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) wrote: >WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [26.2.0.74] >Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ> > Filename Type Length Date Description >============================================== >COMP430D.ZIP B 20241 901013 Unix-compatible 16bit compress/uncompress/zcat There is another one called DECOMP2.ZIP on SIMTEL. WARNING: DECOMP.EXE has a bug. It often crashes DOS upon exit. Apparently it is not freeing allocated memory in the far heap, and when it exits, DOS can't reload COMMAND.COM. The source code is includec with DECOMP, but I haven't had time to debug it. Anyway, COMP430D mentioned above seems to work ok. -- John Dudeck "Nothing is foolproof, because jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu fools are so ingenious." ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549 -- quote from PC Mag.
mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar) (11/11/90)
In article <1633@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes: >In article <2693@ux.acs.umn.edu> anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) writes: >>I'm looking for an msdos uncompressing utility. I have several "blah.tar.Z" >>files on my hard drive and I need to uncompress them (obviously). >>Any suggestions? >>Thanks. (lots of sources deleted) Be aware that many programs that claim to handle 16 bit compress on the PC have not been completed tested. In particular, the Unix port that I had been given which was compiled with TurboC V2.0 would prematurely terminate when 16 bit codes were finally used. It is a sign extension problem when promoting unsigned chars in an expression into a long int result. I have fixed my version. Carefully check yours before you completely trust it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Mussar |Bitnet: mussar@bnr.ca | Phone: (613) 763-4937 BNR Ltd. | UUCP: ..uunet!bnrgate!bcars53!mussar | FAX: (613) 763-2626
pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (11/12/90)
In article <1633@umriscc.isc.umr.edu> mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) writes:
=PAX2EXE.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for
= MS-DOS
There have been reports on Compuserve that both the tar version and the
cpio version of PAX2 have bugs. I can attest to cpio's inability to
"uncpio" an archive it just created. And someone complained that tar
could not untar some tarchives created with (I think) Xenix tar. Could
someone check this out?
Pete
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