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From: wangh@beasley.CS.ORST.EDU (Haiyan Wang)
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Subject: Re: Can I unravel foo.tar.Z on my Mac? Yes!
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Date: 30 Mar 91 16:40:16 GMT
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In article <1991Mar30.110132.20903@agate.berkeley.edu> wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ulf Wostner) writes:
>Is there an application available (yet) for the Mac OS that can
>unravel a file of the form foo.tar.Z from a UNIX machine?

No. You need TWO applications. You need Maccompress(sp?) to decompress the
file and then use tar to extract the files.

>
>Thanks in advance.
>
You're welcome.

>
>= Ulf (Olaf) Wostner
>= Math Dept, CCSF 	"Never met a deadline I didn't like."
>= wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu;  voice 415-848-2343; fax 415-649-7830

Haiyan Wang
wangh@ucs.orst.edu