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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: un-tarring a disk file
Message-ID: <12772@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 May 90 12:29:59 GMT
References: <8832@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <8832@hydra.gatech.EDU> ae219dp@prism.gatech.EDU (Devon Prichard) writes:
>summary says it all; I have a file (gnuplot.tar.Z from Duke Univ.)
>which I want to bust out on a unix system.  I looked at the man
>pages for tar, but it sort of implied it wanted a disk-to-tape
>or tape-to-disk operation.  how do I untar a disk file and write
>disk files??

The "f" option to "tar" allows you to specify an archive file name
in place of the default (that is normally a magtape device file name).
However, for a .Z file you should first "uncompress" it.