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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
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Subject: [bionet.software] Re: tar-Z archive decompression under VMS?
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Date: 22 Feb 90 06:01:21 GMT
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Archive-name: vms-tar/22-Feb-90
Original-posting-by: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Original-subject: Re: tar-Z archive decompression under VMS?
Archive-site: goober.phri.nyu.edu [128.122.136.10]
Archive-directory: pub/vms
Archive-files: asphalt*
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) writes:
>> Is there anywhere a utility available to decode [tar.Z] files under VMS?
>There are a number of public domain sources of Un*x-style compress(1) for VMS.

	Once you've got the file uncompressed, you still have to untar it.
For that, you might want to try a program called asphalt which is supposed to
be a tar implementation which runs on VMS.  Not having any VMS systems, I've
never tested it myself.  You can ftp it from goober.phri.nyu.edu.  Look in
the pub/vms directory.
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