Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!snorkelwacker!mit-eddie!rutgers!cmcl2!uupsi!sunic!chalmers!afs-news!vsect!dahlstr From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: TAR Message-ID: <1990Jul3.092721.19558@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> Date: 3 Jul 90 09:27:21 GMT References: <1750@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Sender: news@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se (News System) Reply-To: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se () Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Lines: 20 In article <1750@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> rlove@gmuvax2.UUCP (Rebecca M. Love) writes: > > I frequently download from Simtel and other anonymous ftp sites, and I >have found that many of them use the TAR compression program. I have >acquired the c files and compiled them to form the program, but it seems to >only work with tape drives. I am trying to uncompress a file in my dir- >ectory on a mainframe into the same directory in the same mainframe, no tape >drives involved. Any suggestions? Try the following command line: tar -xf replace with the name of the file you will untar. Gunnar Dahlstr|m Chalmers University of Technology Division of Building Technology 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden