AKC01@dk0rrzk1.bitnet (Kay Hofmann) (02/22/90)
Hello !
I don't know if this is the right forum to ask this question, but
i'll give it a try:
When scanning the ftp-directories of the genbank-ftp-server i encountered
again these unix-tar.Z archives. It was not the first time i saw them
but up to now i regarded them as 'unusable for VMS'. But it seems to me
that many of these archives are compressed ascii-text like source-code
(or DNA-sequences).
Is there anywhere a utility available to decode these files under VMS?
I have two utilities to convert 'normal' uncompressed unix tar-formats
into VMS-formats but these don't work on the tar.Z files.
If there is no VMS-program i could also use MSDOS,VM/CMS,Mac or unix
programs (in order of preference). I mentioned unix because our unix-tar
is not able to decompress tar.Z archives. By the way, is there any unix
program (in C) like zcat available that does decompresion of tar-Z archives
into normal tar-format?
I would greatly appreciate any help on these topics,
Kay Hofmann.
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*-------------------------------------------------------------------*davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (02/22/90)
> When scanning the ftp-directories of the genbank-ftp-server i encountered > again these unix-tar.Z archives. > Is there anywhere a utility available to decode these files under VMS? There are a number of public domain sources of Un*x-style compress(1) for VMS. The local Dec User's group should have it on one of the DECUS software tapes. Gatekeeper.dec.com may have it; uunet.uu.net might, altho I've never seen it there. If you have trouble contact me and I can send you the VMS source. dan -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU "Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somewhat the same distance from the sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe" -- Vice President Dan Quayle, Head of the National Space Council, when questioned on CNN about why America should send a mission to Mars. [Houston Post, Sun. Nov. 19, pg. C-1]. Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.
roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) (02/22/90)
davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) writes: >> Is there anywhere a utility available to decode [tar.Z] files under VMS? >There are a number of public domain sources of Un*x-style compress(1) for VMS. Once you've got the file uncompressed, you still have to untar it. For that, you might want to try a program called asphalt which is supposed to be a tar implementation which runs on VMS. Not having any VMS systems, I've never tested it myself. You can ftp it from goober.phri.nyu.edu. Look in the pub/vms directory. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"
davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (02/22/90)
> davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) writes: > >> Is there anywhere a utility available to decode [tar.Z] files under VMS? > >There are a number of public domain sources of Un*x-style compress(1) for VMS. > Once you've got the file uncompressed, you still have to untar it. And I have five implementations(!!!) of tar for VMS, not counting Gnu tar. They are also from DECUS. If anyone wants one, let me know and I can put the code on the UH Genbank-server. dna dan --- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.