TLIMONCE@DRUNIVAC.BITNET (Tom Limoncelli) (09/24/89)
I am using LZDCMP which claims to be Unix compatible. It's not
working on ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR_Z (I renamed it). Can anyone suggest something
better before I go and buy a Unix machine just to do this uncompress ;-)
-TomR602MS5U@CMCCVB.BITNET (Marc Shannon) (09/24/89)
In reply to your message as follows: >I am using LZDCMP which claims to be Unix compatible. It's not >working on ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR_Z (I renamed it). Can anyone suggest something >better before I go and buy a Unix machine just to do this uncompress ;-) > >-Tom Unfortunately, it seems that the LZ* utilities for VMS aren't completely Unix compatible in these respects. In order to make things easier for some system managers who may not have access to a Unix machine to run `uncompress' on the tar file (and who may not have DEC/Shell or VMStar), I'm going to make available on DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU (in the ANONYMOUS directory) the file ANU-NEWS-V59.BZK which will be a LZCOMP'ed backup saveset of the same file. This will also include the fix for CMU TCP/IP which was in the pub/anu-news directory on csc2 as well. --Marc Shannon SYNFUL@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) (09/26/89)
> I am using LZDCMP which claims to be Unix compatible. It's not > working on ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR_Z (I renamed it). Can anyone suggest something > better before I go and buy a Unix machine just to do this uncompress ;-) There are two different version of LZDCMP.EXE available via anonymous ftp from kuhub.cc.ukans.edu. The older version, LZDCMP_OLD.EXE will correctly decompress the ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR_Z file if you use the commands: $ LZDCMP:==$dev:[dir]LZDCMP_OLD.EXE $ LZDCMP -B ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR_Z ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR The ANU-NEWS-V59.TAR file produced should work just fine with TAR2VMS. Note that the old version of LZDCMP will not work on files created by the new version of LZDCMP. I keep meaning to debug the new version, but there is always something more important to do. :-) -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 "The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." -- Mark Russell