Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!fs7!yount From: yount@fox.ece.cmu.edu (Charles Robert Yount) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: question about tar.Z file Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 13:29:28 GMT References: <7918@auspex.auspex.com> <16212@smoke.brl.mil> <1991May22.005816.1351@cse.uta.edu> Sender: news@fs7.ece.cmu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: khwang@cse.uta.edu's message of 22 May 91 00:58:16 GMT 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 ! If you're short on disk space, you can go directly from a tar.Z file to "ASCII readable." Try the following: zcat a.tar.Z | tar xvf - --Chuck