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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Unix tar uncompression
Message-ID: <11100@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 21:09:20 GMT
References: <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com>
Organization: Dead Poets Society
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In <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) writes:
>>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a
>>PC based utility available for this?
>Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble
>Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network.
>....  If you want to "uncompress" a Unix
>.tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to
>use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first.

If you happen to have a c compiler for the pc, you can get compress.c
off most any news archive site.... you can then uncompress large on the
pc without having to wait for uncompressed files to download.
Microsoft Quick-C can be had for peanuts..... if time is money, 
it's worth it.

-- Glenn R. Stone
gs26@prism.gatech.edu