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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Motif tar
Message-ID: <9009032129.AA18815@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 3 Sep 90 21:29:46 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> When I tried to untar young.motif.tar.Z from expo.lcs.mit.edu I got
>  directory checksum error. I used the following command
>     tar -xvf  young.motif.tar.Z

As indicated by the trailing .Z, it's a *compressed* tar file.
Uncompress it first, or if you want to uncompress and untar all at
once, you can just

% uncompress < young.motif.tar.Z | tar xvf -

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