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In article <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Alex "Mystic" Soto) writes:
|> comptec91006@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Michael Botten) writes:
|> 
|> >This question doesn't really have much to do with this newsgroup, but I
|> >suspect someone here will know the answer.  So here goes nothing...
|> 
|> >What needs to be done to files ending in '.Z'  (eg. filename.ext.Z) to make
|> >them usable?  I assume they are archived.  I guess I just need to know the
|> >name of the archiver so I can get it from an FTP server somewhere.
|> 
|> Actually, doesn't .Z mean they are tar'ed?  I think compressed or packed is
|> small .z
|> If it is tared together, you will have to go into UNIX and untar it by
|> typing: tar xvf filename.ext.Z
|> In case I'm wrong, you can also do a 'man tar'
|> 	Hope this helps.
|> 		Mystic
|> (alex.soto@analog.com)
|> 

Files with a lower case 'z' are packed (use unpack <filename>)
Files with an upper case 'Z' are compressed (use uncompress <filename>)

If file is compressed and tar'ed it will probably have the extension
foo.tar.Z (or foo.taz)

You must first uncompress it, before you can extract the files from the 
archive.  If the file has un upper case Z then it can be extracted

zcat foo.tar.Z | tar xvof -

Steve

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