Re: Files with .tgz extension?

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From: David Hassell
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 00:00

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As someone once helped me, here's the deal:

dfork -i <file>.tgz
zcat <file>.tgz | tar -xvf -


In article <4m9j9u$dem@shellx.best.com>, jnw@shellx.best.com (JNW
International) wrote:

>In article <4m9h2j$o7t@shellx.best.com>, thug <thug@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>In article <4m9f7l$829@shellx.best.com>,
>>JNW International <jnw@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>>I tried using gzip -d to decompress them but failed.  Does anyone
>>>know how to decompress them?  They are supposed to be gzipped tar
>>>image files?  TIA...
>>
>>Try...
>>   cat file.tgz| gzip -d| tar xvf -
>
>Unfortunately it doesn't work.  Same error message: it's not in gzip
>format.

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From: dhassell@diamond.tufts.edu (David Hassell)
Subject: Re: Files with .tgz extension?
Date: 1996/05/02
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