Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!nocusuhs!nmrdc1!rdc30 From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: How Do You FTP Files Of Form *.tar.Z To A PC? Message-ID: <1991May17.131149.14974@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Date: 17 May 91 13:11:49 GMT References: <42236@cup.portal.com> Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command Lines: 25 In article <42236@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes: >I'm probably missing something obvious, but today while doing >an FTP from a UNIX machine to a PC I was unable to transfer >files that had been both TARred and COMPRESSed. These files >were of the form .tar.Z. Upon issuing the GET command >from the PC I got a message "Unable to open file". This was >using Wollongong's WIN/TCP For DOS. Is the inability to deal >with a three-part name a failure of the WIN/TCP product, or >is there a trick I can use here to get the file over to my PC? > Try the following: ftp> binary ftp> get file.tar.Z file.taz the first command sets ftp into binary mode (needed for .Z files) the second says to get the file file.tar.Z and store on the PC as file.taz -- Mike Dobson, Sys Admin for | Internet: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | UUCP: ...uunet!mimsy!nmrdc1!rdc30 AT&T 3B2/600G Sys V R 3.2.2 | BITNET: dobson@usuhsb or nrd0mxd@vmnmdsc WIN/TCP for 3B2 | MCI-Mail: 377-2719 or 0003772719@mcimail.com