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In article <4mbcos$fpt@shellx.best.com>, haynes@shellx.best.com (Charles
Haynes) wrote:

>In article <dhassell-0205960813540001@m055-446-a-d1.tc.tufts.edu>,
>David Hassell <dhassell@diamond.tufts.edu> wrote:
>>As someone once helped me, here's the deal:
>
>>dfork -i <file>.tgz
>>zcat <file>.tgz | tar -xvf -
>
>dfork? That's a new one to me. What's it do, return the data fork of a
>flattened Mac file?

In fact, yes.  It outputs the data fork to stdout.  Since mac files have
both data and resource forks, you need to use dfork to use the file in
UNIX.

>In any case, two points:
>
>    1) did you ftp this file to best? Did you make sure to do it in
>       binary mode?

Valid point although I think the problem he was experiencing was the fact
that the file he was trying to decompress was a Mac file.  Many of the files
on Tenon's site are in this format.

>    2) you don't need the explicit gzip step. for a tar that supports
>       it (like gnutar) just do tar xvzf file.tgz The tar on best
>       supports the -z option.

This is true...my mistake.

 - Dave

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