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Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: TAR on a PC and detarring STAR-1.04.4.tar.Z
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Date: 27 May 91 15:31:48 GMT
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         Dear Roger Yee,

          First of all, thankyou for posting the PC UNUX utilities (by the
     way the uncompress works amazingly) , and so I no longer have to
     borrow somebodies account on a UNUX machine to uncompress file from
     abroad. However I can't get TAR to behave itself. So are there any
     UNUX users out there who can help me:

               I am in the directory C:\HP48\STAR and in this directory
     I have the file STAR.Z ( what I called STAR-1.04.4.tar.Z on my PC).
     I type

               C>UNCOMPRE STAR

     with UNCOMPRE.EXE in the current path and it works a while and
     STAR.Z dissapears and low and behold STAR is in the directory

     (about 3 times as large). I can only assume this would be the equivalent
     of STAR-1.04.4.tar on a UNUX machine after decompression (i.e. the Z is
     removed.) I then type

              C>TAR -x -f STAR

     and I get the response

              tar: .: Permission denied
              tar: .: Permission denied
              tar:..: Skipping to next fileheader

     and all that is extracted is the file MAKEFILE about 1.6K long (I don't
     think that is what is stored in the archive). So how do I extract the
     rest??????? Any comments and help would be greatly appreciated.

            Conrad W.