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From: dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: .tar.Z
Message-ID: <782@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 89 14:45:48 GMT
References: <8906260924.aa01054@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: dougm@lakesys.UUCP (Doug McIntyre)
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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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.
>>
>>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>).
>

	A .tar.Z file is a file that has been 'tar'ed and compressed.  I
released my port of compress for the IIGS a little more than month ago
on comp.binaries.apple2, and mailed it to the archive server Apple2-l. 
I do have a working detar for the IIGS, but I don't want to release it,
as it still is a little flakey, and I don't consider it up to par to
release to the whole world.  I'll send mail to rickb asking him if he
wants what I have for detar, and explaing its bugs, and non-features.. 
Both of these require a shell such as APW or Orca or ECP to run though,
since they are Unix type programs, and I use the shell all the time.. 
Of course Unix has both of these utilities handy. 


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