Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inria!irisa!delaunay From: delaunay@irisa.fr (Ch. Delaunay) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: pkarc/pkxarc and/or pkzip/pkunzip for unix Summary: tar x[v]f Keywords: arc, zoo, unzip for unix Message-ID: <1504@irisa.irisa.fr> Date: 26 Sep 89 08:40:39 GMT References: <468@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> Sender: news@irisa.irisa.fr Organization: IRISA, Rennes (Fr) Lines: 49 In article <468@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> packer@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Michael A Packer,Knapp Hall,,2928607) writes: >From article , by w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen): >> ARC and ZOO for Unix are available from SIMTEL20. ARCSRC.TAR-Z will >> handle PKWare's squashing as well as the ARC compression methods. >>[...] >> The filename.TAR-Z files should be renamed to filename.tar.Z after >> transfer to your Unix host. These files were compressed with a >> Unix-compatible compress program. >> > >please excuse my ignorance, but I have attempted to find the solution >here at school and noone can seem to answer my question concerning the >tar file. > >Keith says to remember to rename the file to filename.tar.Z >I can get this far, and i can even go as far as to uncompress it. >But this is where the problem starts. What do I do with the tar'ed file? >i know it is a Tape Archive somthing or other but I don't know what to do >with this... please help..... Hi! Please excuse me if this information is posted several times but I just received this article and no reply yet. After uncompressing ".tar.Z" file "file.tar.Z", just give the command "tar xf file.tar" or "tar xvf file.tar". Adding the v switch to your command let tar display every filename it unarchives onscreen. It may be useful if the ".tar" file creates a special directory for unarchiving. If you also want to "unzip" files on your unix machine, try the "unzip" program that was sent on comp.sources.misc. I received and compiled it yesterday on a sun workstation running 4.2bsd. It works fine for me but it doesn't seem to unzip auto-extractable zip files. > >I think this might be worth posting instead of mail to me...I am sure >that I can't be the only one not knowing how to do this. Hope it can help and won't overcharge the net tomuch. Regards, >by the way keith you are doing a great job! I think so, many many thanks Keith! Christophe Delaunay e-mail: "delaunay@irisa.irisa.fr" or "...!!mcvax!irisa!delaunay".