klinich@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (08/22/90)
Can anyone tell me how to uncompress a file with the extentions .tar.Z
In other words it looks like:
filename.tar.Z
I want to do this on a PC. If I need decompression programs, where can I get
them. I have access to ftp sites.
Thanks in advance,
George
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George Klinich
Dept. of Physics
Ohio State Univ.
Columbus, OH 43210andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (08/22/90)
In article <8652.26d17d87@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> klinich@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes: >Can anyone tell me how to uncompress a file with the extentions .tar.Z >In other words it looks like: > > filename.tar.Z If you have unix on your pc then you can use `uncompress' to uncompress the file and then `tar' on the resulting file to unarchive it. i.e. uncompress filename.tar.Z # the resulting file is filename.tar tar xvf filename.tar # extract files from tar archive If you have dos then you can get the dos versions of these programmes from one of the msdos archive sites like wsmr-simtel20.army.mil or wuarchive.wustl.edu. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861