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From: rowland@ecn.purdue.edu (Mav)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: uncompress and tar (was: none)
Message-ID: <1990May6.150836.23585@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 6 May 90 15:08:36 GMT
References: <23157@adm.BRL.MIL> <6420@star.cs.vu.nl>
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In article <6420@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <23157@adm.BRL.MIL>,
>	jones@mips1.uqam.ca (Jones*Peter) writes:
>)When I want to decompress a tar file, the following code works fine, albeit
>)at the expense of creating a temp file on disk:
[script deleted]
>)The following was intended to do the same thing, but when I run it, I get
>)checksum errors. I suspect the tar process is getting confused by the
>)interactive confirmations requested by the -w switch. What should I do?


Seems to me you could use the zcat program..

like: zcat xx.tar.Z |tar -xf[other flags here] -

Works for me...suppose the w command might be different.  
I'm on BSD 4.3 Tahoe (actually Gould UTX 3/2)


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