Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!hsdndev!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: question about tar.Z file Message-ID: <16231@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 22 May 91 02:40:00 GMT References: <16212@smoke.brl.mil> <1991May22.005816.1351@cse.uta.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <1991May22.005816.1351@cse.uta.edu> khwang@cse.uta.edu (khwang) writes: >Does anyone out there how I can teansfer a tar.Z file to ASCII readble >file ? I tried uncompress, for example, a.tar.Z then I got an a.tar then >what next ? Your reply will be greatly appreciated ! The file names were chosen to indicate the format. The .Z suffix conventionally indicates application of BSD "compress", and as you discovered it is understood by "uncompress". The .tar suffix undoubtedly means that the file is a "tar" archive. Look up "tar" in Section 1 of your UNIX user manual.