Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!bu.edu!orc!inews!iwarp.intel.com!psueea!parsely!twiki!dalew From: dalew@twiki.PDX.COM (Dale A. Weber) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Unix tar uncompression Message-ID: Date: 10 Jul 90 12:59:27 GMT References: <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com> Organization: Experimenter's Anonymous - Portland, OR USA Lines: 21 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? > > PC_NFS also has a network TAR. 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. There is a very good 16 bit [de]compress utility for MS/PC-DOS. I use it all the time when dealing with compressed files from *NIX. It came without documentation so I tested it carefully before installing it on my BBS, but it works great and now my system can handle 12 bit _and_ 16 bit compressed files, all on my MS-DOS machine. I have no idea where this program is from or who the author is though. -- Internet: dalew@pdx.com OR dalew@twiki.pdx.com # The AS/400 Specialists UUCP: ..!{sun!nosun, tektronix}!tessi!twiki!dalew # WORK: A-38 Specialists Consulting Group, Inc. # Voice: +1(503)226-1662 P.O. Box 42157, Portland, OR 97242-0157 USA # FAX: +1(503)774-6348