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From: davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: bionet.software
Subject: Re: tar-Z archive decompression under VMS?
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Date: 22 Feb 90 02:43:06 GMT
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> When scanning the ftp-directories of the genbank-ftp-server i encountered
> again these unix-tar.Z archives. 
> Is there anywhere a utility available to decode these files under VMS?

There are a number of public domain sources of Un*x-style compress(1)
for VMS.  The local Dec User's group should have it on one of the
DECUS software tapes.  Gatekeeper.dec.com may have it; uunet.uu.net
might, altho I've never seen it there. 

If you have trouble contact me and I can send you the VMS source.

dan
-- 
dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of
Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit...somewhat the same distance
from the sun, which is very important.  We have seen pictures where
there are canals, we believe, and water.  If there is water, that
means there is oxygen.  If oxygen, that means we can breathe" -- Vice
President Dan Quayle, Head of the National Space Council, when
questioned on CNN about why America should send a mission to Mars.
[Houston Post, Sun. Nov. 19, pg. C-1].

Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to
myself.