Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!aash
From: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: .tar.Z
Message-ID: <11988@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 20:22:35 GMT
References: <8906260924.aa01054@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: aash@ms.uky.edu (aash)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <8906260924.aa01054@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>>     About a month ago I received a file from a UNIX system with the suffix
>>of" .tar.Z ". Now I know what it stands for, but I have no access to a real
>>UNIX's system. Is there away to undo the tar and compress of these file on
>>a Apple computer? Any help would be appreciated.



In my archive here, I keep stuff tarred (.tar) and
compressed (.Z).  tar is short for 'tape archive'
but is also handy for keeping a multitude of
related files all in one file.  Along with
compress, this is a very nice way to store things,
as it is space efficient and easy to upload,
download, and maintain.  Unfortunately, not
everyone has a Unix machine (yet), or
has the tar and compress programs.

If anyone has anything they would like to get,
but doesn't because of the file media format,
please let me know and i'll store it in ascii
or some other format and put it into a temporary
directory.

aash

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