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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: .tar and .tar.Z
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.234627.14542@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 12 Nov 90 23:46:27 GMT
References: <2688@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <2688@ux.acs.umn.edu> anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss) writes:
>Could someone tell me the difference between .tar files and .tar.Z files?
>
>I'm using a tar extracting program that doesn't like the .tar.Z format.
>
>anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu


The .Z extension means that it has been compressed using the UNIX (or UNIX
like) compress utility. You must uncompress it first.

Russ