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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: .tar.Z
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Date: 26 Jun 89 13:37:35 GMT
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>     In reading your articles on the net I have come to the conclusion that
>you are will informed about the workings of UNIX and Apples. So I will but
>this question to you.

What I know about UNIX, I've 'picked up' reading net mail.  I haven't
access to a UNIX system here, and I've never used UNIX myself.

>     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.
>
>Rick Bradley
>[ARPA] crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!rickb@nosc.mil

Perhaps someone reading comp.sys.apple (aka info-apple) has a program
that'll do it (I've copied my reply to the list in the hope that
something might turn up; I am also sending a copy to Larry Virden who
I KNOW is using a UNIX system <lwv27@CAS.BITNET>).

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