Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!edw From: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: use of *.Tar.Z Message-ID: <54604@sequent.UUCP> Date: 6 Mar 91 18:53:43 GMT References: <91063.211126NU142696@NDSUVM1.BITNET> <54478@sequent.UUCP> Reply-To: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) Organization: Orygun Society For HUman Rustabillity Assessment Lines: 25 In article hamilton@kickapoo.cs.iastate.edu (Jon Hamilton) writes: %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... Well, They both start with the same letter, Now dont they ?! Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa, I have never ever made a mistake! I thought I might have once , but I was wrong. Go forth and uncompress -- 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