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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: .tar.Z
Message-ID: <224@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:36:52 GMT
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In article <89319.115919SMH106@PSUVM.BITNET> SMH106@PSUVM.BITNET (Al can blow me...) writes:
<I am relatively new to this whole FTP thing.  What do I have to do to a .tar.Z
<file to get it into working format? (UU, Zoo, Compress, What!?)

You first uncompress it then you use tar to extract the files.
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