Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: emacs
Keywords: emacs archives, uunet
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.153303.5561@virtech.uucp>
Date: 11 Apr 90 15:33:03 GMT
References: <29@grumbly.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <29@grumbly.UUCP> root@grumbly.com writes:
>I've been having trouble uncompressing the emacs 18.55 archives
>from the uunet archives.  18.55.Z.00 uncompressed ok, but I'm left
>with a 660k file that doesn't execute [doesn't chop itself up into 
>the smaller source files].
>
>18.55.Z.01 and 02 came through uucp at the right size(256k), but

Whenever files are in the form of *.Z.NN where NN is sequential numbering,
the files are a split compessed file.  To uncomress them you must do 
something like:

	cat *.Z.[0-9][0-9]  | uncompress | (de-archiver tar/cpio/whatever)



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