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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: File compressor
Message-ID: <130160@gore.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 06:25:45 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / zazula@uazhe0.physics.arizona.edu (RALPH ZAZULA) / Feb 11'91/
> Has anyone ported the PC archiver "ZIP" to the UNIX domain?  It is
> so very nice to do archiving rather than compressing.  That is,
> create a file that you can get the contents of without uncompressing
> it.  Compress does do a great job but I don't like the idea of 
> TAR -> COMPRESS.  You have to uncompress to look at the tar file contents.

No, you don't:

	zcat directory.tar.Z | tar tvf -

> 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 ...

Jacob
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