Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cs.dal.ca!dal1!06davis From: 06davis@ac.dal.ca Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: .tar and .Z extensions on files -- what are they? Message-ID: <2958@ac.dal.ca> Date: 27 Jan 91 17:42:32 GMT Lines: 10 Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada sorry folks, I don't know if this is the correct newsgroup to ask this question, but I've been bombing around the FTP sites and have found files with extentions like .tar and .Z and have wondered if this is a unix-style archive format. If it is I would be interested in getting the dearchiving program or at least some idea where I could obtain it. Thanks in advance, Davis Bennett