Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!p4.cs.man.ac.uk!gilbertd From: gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk (Dave Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: use of *.Tar.Z Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 12:21:21 GMT References: <91063.211126NU142696@NDSUVM1.BITNET> Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk Lines: 15 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. You can uncompress them, using compress, and then use tar on the uncompressed file - alternativly use gnu tar which has a command line flag for uncompressing (I think it just pipes it through compress first) Dave -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Dave Gilbert - gilbertd@p4.cs.man.ac.uk - The MTBF of a piece of equipment - - G7FHJ@GB7NWP - is inversly proportional to its - ------------------------------------------- importance -