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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: compress
Keywords: compress,uncompress
Message-ID: <16423@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Jun 91 02:35:32 GMT
References: <1991Jun15.122519.1209@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Jun15.122519.1209@doug.cae.wisc.edu> plampani@dpls (Patrick Lampani) writes:
>I just downloaded a bunch of compressed files. Most of these files are like :
>		TeX3.0.tar.Zaa
>		..
>		TeX3.0.tar.Zaz
>How do I uncompress these files, with out having to rename them,then uncompress  
>them and then un tarring them? Is their some other program I'm supposed to use?

From the file names I'd guess that this is a batch of files produced by
applying the "split" utility to TeX3.0.tar.Z.  Before uncompressing, you
would have to unsplit the large file.  E.g.:
	$ cat TeX3.0.tar.Z?? | uncompress | tar xvf -