Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!andy
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: .taz
Date: Fri, 25 May 90 19:04:25 GMT
Message-ID: <1990May25.190425.14437@mks.com>
Keywords: taz
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Reply-To: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
References: <9677@discus.technion.ac.il>

In article <9677@discus.technion.ac.il> joel%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman) writes:
>I suppose .taz is a new kind of archiving scheme.  Anyone know
>where I can find a decoder?  Please respond by e-mail.

Maybe .taz is mapped to a DOS filename from .tar.Z on UNIX.  If this
is the case then it is a compressed tar file.  Try this:

	zcat file.taz | tar tvf -

If it is a compressed tar file then the above will type a verbose
listing of the archive.  Of course the above will work only if you
have zcat (or compress/uncompress) and tar on your system.  They
should be on most if not all UNIX systems.
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