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From: zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA)
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Subject: Re: File compressor
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Date: 12 Feb 91 16:11:14 GMT
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In article <130160@gore.com>, jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes...
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>> TAR -> COMPRESS.  You have to uncompress to look at the tar file contents.
> 
>No, you don't:
> 
>	zcat directory.tar.Z | tar tvf -

My understanding is that ZCAT is the same as UNCOMPRESS.  That was
my original comment: you have to UNCOMPRESS the TAR->COMPRESS file
to get an index of the TAR file.  

> 
>> With something like ZIP, ARC, ZOO ...  you can list the files without 
>> uncompressing them *AND* extract only the file(s) you want...
> 
>You can extract only the files you want with tar too:
> 
>	zcat directory.tar.Z | tar xpvf - file-path-1 file-path-2 ...
> 

You are right...  I wasn't aware that TAR would let you select the
files you wanted...  

>Jacob
>--
>Jacob Gore		Jacob@Gore.Com			boulder!gore!jacob

Thanks!
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