Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:19088 comp.unix.questions:32171 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!arizona!arizona.edu!news.telcom.arizona.edu!paul From: paul@music.sie.arizona.edu (Paul J. Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: compress Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 18:05:20 GMT References: <1991Jun15.122519.1209@doug.cae.wisc.edu> Distribution: world,local Organization: Systems & Industrial Engineering, U of AZ Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: music.sie.arizona.edu In-reply-to: plampani@dpls's message of 15 Jun 91 17:25:19 GMTLines: 18 sorry to waste bandwidth, but i tried e-mail and my mailer couldn't figure out where you are. from your description, it looks as though the files were split by the "split" command. they should be "cat"ed back together before uncompressing and untarring. if you want to see the contents without actually physically joining them, you can pipe a series of commands to achieve your objective. try cat TeX3.0.tar.Z* | zcat | tar tvf - to see a listing of the distribution. to actually unpack, do exactly the same pipeline but substitute "xvf" for "tvf". don't forget that dash at the end... good luck, let me know if you have problems. --paul paul@music.sie.arizona.edu