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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: how do I unpack the core.tar.Z files?
Keywords: install core.tar, uncompress
Message-ID: <5366@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 89 00:42:42 GMT
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In article <284@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> kam@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu(Katherine Minister) writes:
| How do I unpack the core.tar.Z.ab<cde, etc.> files?  file tells me that
| they are data, and uncompress won't give them the time of day.  Obviously
| we are missing a critical item of information, but what is it?

First you cat them all together.

cat core.tar.Z.* | uncompress | tar xof -

will do the trick under unix.

-Miles
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