Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: use of *.Tar.Z Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 23:06:00 GMT References: <91063.211126NU142696@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <54478@sequent.UUCP> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA Lines: 22 edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) writes: >In article <91063.211126NU142696@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NU142696@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes: >%If you know how to make or unpack the *.tar.Z files, please send me some >%information. Thank you very much. >try zcat or uuencode >then use tar to extract the unpacked archive >-- zcat perhaps, but uuencode? .Z indicates a compressed file. the most obvious way to uncompress it is...with uncompress! after you're done with that, then you can untar it using tar... > I think I've got the hang of it now .... :w :q :wq :wq! ^d X exit > X Q :quitbye CtrlAltDel ~~q :~q logout save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz > ^[ZZ ZZZZ ^H ^@ ^L ^[c ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T ? help helpquit ^D ^d > ^C ^c helpexit ?Quit ?q decwrl or uunet or tek !sequent!edw -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu " I feel a lot more like I do now that I did before I got here " - can't remember who