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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
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Subject: Re: tar.Z files
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Date: 10 Mar 90 22:10:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: GJose@system-m.phx.bull.com's message of 10 Mar 90 17:24:06 GMT

> I have just obtained an amiga file with a .tar.Z suffix. Could someone
> please tell me what I have to do to uncompress/unarchive this file?

Under UNIX, something like
	zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf - 
or
	uncompress file.tar.Z
	tar xvf file.tar

On the Amiga (I haven't tried this yet), it should be like the second
example.

Amiga TAR will be coming in comp.binaries.amiga soon pending approval.
Until then, if you have a UNIX machine nearby, you might want to
unpack it there.

> Also the location (ftp sites) of the utilities necessary to achieve
> this?

When TAR comes out, it'll be available from comp.binaries.amiga
archive sites, such as xanth.cs.odu.edu and f.ms.uky.edu.
	...tad