rlove@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Rebecca M. Love) (07/02/90)
I frequently download from Simtel and other anonymous ftp sites, and I
have found that many of them use the TAR compression program. I have
acquired the c files and compiled them to form the program, but it seems to
only work with tape drives. I am trying to uncompress a file in my dir-
ectory on a mainframe into the same directory in the same mainframe, no tape
drives involved. Any suggestions?
Becky
rlove@gmuvax2.gmu.edu Internet
RLOVE@gmuvax.gmu.edu Bitnetdahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) (07/03/90)
In article <1750@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> rlove@gmuvax2.UUCP (Rebecca M. Love) writes: > > I frequently download from Simtel and other anonymous ftp sites, and I >have found that many of them use the TAR compression program. I have >acquired the c files and compiled them to form the program, but it seems to >only work with tape drives. I am trying to uncompress a file in my dir- >ectory on a mainframe into the same directory in the same mainframe, no tape >drives involved. Any suggestions? Try the following command line: tar -xf <tar-archive> replace <tar-archive> with the name of the file you will untar. Gunnar Dahlstr|m Chalmers University of Technology Division of Building Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden
jem@hpisod2.HP.COM (Jim McCauley) (07/03/90)
Becky: > I frequently download from Simtel and other anonymous ftp sites, and I > have found that many of them use the TAR compression program. On Unix systems, `tar' is not a compression program. It is a `tape archive' utility that is used to store programs and data on tape in a form that can be shared with many other computers, including those that do not run Unix. > I have > acquired the c files and compiled them to form the program, but it seems to > only work with tape drives. I am trying to uncompress a file in my dir- > ectory on a mainframe into the same directory in the same mainframe, no tape > drives involved. Any suggestions? Check your system to make sure that it does not have a `tar' program on it already. If it is a Unix system, there should be a `tar' executable on it somewhere (probably in /usr/bin). There should also be a program called `cpio' (`copy input/output') that is used in conjunction with `tar' to transfer files, especially to media other than tapes. If your system is not some flavor of Unix, then I must confess that I haven't any idea how `tar' works with its filesystem. Jim McCauley jem@hpulpcu3.hp.com (408) 447-4993 Learning Products Engineer Hewlett Packard Company, Open Systems Software Division MS 48SO, 19447 Pruneridge Avenue, Cupertino CA 95014 Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not my employer's.