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From: AKC01@dk0rrzk1.bitnet (Kay Hofmann)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: tar-Z archive decompression under VMS?
Message-ID: <9002212359.AA29825@net.bio.net>
Date: 22 Feb 90 00:05:06 GMT
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Hello !
I don't know if this is the right forum to ask this question, but
i'll give it a try:
When scanning the ftp-directories of the genbank-ftp-server i encountered
again these unix-tar.Z archives. It was not the first time i saw them
but up to now i regarded them as 'unusable for VMS'. But it seems to me
that many of these archives are compressed ascii-text like source-code
(or DNA-sequences).
Is there anywhere a utility available to decode these files under VMS?
I have two utilities to convert 'normal' uncompressed unix tar-formats
into VMS-formats but these don't work on the tar.Z files.
If there is no VMS-program i could also use MSDOS,VM/CMS,Mac or unix
programs (in order of preference). I mentioned unix because our unix-tar
is not able to decompress tar.Z archives. By the way, is there any unix
program (in C) like zcat available that does decompresion of tar-Z archives
into normal tar-format?
I would greatly appreciate any help on these topics,
                                                     Kay Hofmann.

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 Institut fuer Biochemie (med. Fakultaet)             AKC01@DK0RRZK0
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