Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!readdm From: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: extracting programs Message-ID: <39382@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 8 Nov 90 18:38:30 GMT References: <6117@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) Organization: UT-Austin Nuclear Physics (Jerry's Kids) Lines: 25 In article <> YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) writes: > >I am in a bit of trouble. A friend sent me a program via email and thought >I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system. The problem is trying >to uncompress the file. It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all >of this on the pc. My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if >I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works. > >But then the problem of unpaking arises. I am using looz to unpack it and it >fails. Could someone help me in unpaking it along with the tool to un tar it >if I get that far. Compres/uncompress is available in C source form, from SIMTEL in the pd1: directory, as COMPRESS.C, .DOC, .MAK, .TQT Then you'll need some kind of tar utility, probably available as part of the GNU project. Try poking around in SIMTEL's pd2: directory and see if tar exists there. -- Dave Read | readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |"I will go insane, and UT-Austin Nuclear Physics | readdm@physics.utexas.edu | I WILL TAKE YOU WITH ME Graduate Student (Slave) | read@lampf.lanl.gov | -from 'Beetlejuice'