YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) (11/08/90)
Hello, I am in a bit of trouble. A friend sent me a program via email and thought I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system. The problem is trying to uncompress the file. It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all of this on the pc. My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works. But then the problem of unpaking arises. I am using looz to unpack it and it fails. Could someone help me in unpaking it along with the tool to un tar it if I get that far. I'm sorry for wasting bandwidth but I didn't know where else to search out help. Thanks in advance, Roger Yee (YEE@KCGL1.ENG.OHIO-STATE.EDU)
readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) (11/09/90)
In article <> YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) writes: > >I am in a bit of trouble. A friend sent me a program via email and thought >I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system. The problem is trying >to uncompress the file. It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all >of this on the pc. My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if >I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works. > >But then the problem of unpaking arises. I am using looz to unpack it and it >fails. Could someone help me in unpaking it along with the tool to un tar it >if I get that far. Compres/uncompress is available in C source form, from SIMTEL in the pd1:<msdos.sq-usq> directory, as COMPRESS.C, .DOC, .MAK, .TQT Then you'll need some kind of tar utility, probably available as part of the GNU project. Try poking around in SIMTEL's pd2:<msdos2.gnuish> directory and see if tar exists there. -- Dave Read | readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |"I will go insane, and UT-Austin Nuclear Physics | readdm@physics.utexas.edu | I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME Graduate Student (Slave) | read@lampf.lanl.gov | -from 'Beetlejuice'
mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) (11/09/90)
In article <6117@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) writes: >Hello, > >I am in a bit of trouble. A friend sent me a program via email and thought >I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system. The problem is trying >to uncompress the file. It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all >of this on the pc. My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if >I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works. >Roger Yee (YEE@KCGL1.ENG.OHIO-STATE.EDU) DETAR11.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Process a TAR file on PC PDTAR.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Read/write TAR files on PC TAR.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> Unix-compatible TAR archive maker/extractor PAX2EXE.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL> PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for MS-DOS 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. There used to be a file called TAR-Z.ARC in the directory also, but it seems to have disappeared (Keith?). I don't know if any of these can handle the .Z as well. Hope it helps. -- 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.
db21@cbnewsc.att.com (david.beyerl) (11/09/90)
In article <39382@ut-emx.uucp>, readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes: > In article <> YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) writes: > > > >I am in a bit of trouble. A friend sent me a program via email and thought > >I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system. The problem is trying > >to uncompress the file. It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all > >of this on the pc. My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if > >I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works. > > > >But then the problem of unpaking arises. I am using looz to unpack it and it > >fails. Could someone help me in unpaking it along with the tool to un tar it > >if I get that far. > > Compres/uncompress is available in C source form, from SIMTEL in the > pd1:<msdos.sq-usq> directory, as COMPRESS.C, .DOC, .MAK, .TQT > -- > Dave Read | readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |"I will go insane, and My experience with compress is that it puts the extension .Z after the file name while pack uses the extension .z . A minor difference but a difference none the less -- the algorithms and reduction ratios are vastly different. Before you spend a lot of time chasing tools that may not do the job, I recommend you check on which method was used to create your file. Dave Beyerl