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In article <1992Dec14.195419.5747@pcx.ncd.com> 
	chrisk@pcx.ncd.com (Chris Kessel) writes:

>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'

You're aren't quite right.  The *.tar extension indicates a "tarred" archive 
that needn't be compressed at all.  A *.tar.Z extension indicates a *.tar 
archive that has also been compressed with Unix compress.

There are MSDOS "untar" and "uncompress" programs available.  To handle a 
*.tar.Z file you would have to first uncompress the file with "uncompress" 
and then untar it using pdtar or an equivalent.

>
>There is also a .Z extension for a certain DOS compression program (just
>called compress I think).  It's used by some people because of it's 
>Windows compatibility (I guess pkzip isn't (or wasn't) windows compatible).
>You don't have to be in Windows to uncompress, but you do have to have the 
>compress program.

You got me completely lost here.  *.Z files have nothing to do with 
Microsoft Windows.  The last official release of PKZIP (1.10) will run 
within a Windows 3.x DOS box.  It however will not handle *.Z files.  This 
is similar to asking Unix compress to create *.zip files.

To the original poster -- I'm sure that you can find DOS tools to handle 
*.tar and *.Z files at many sites.  If you cannot, then FTP to
"shasta.scl.cwru.edu" and look in the directory "dos/compression".  There 
are tools available to handle both "*.tar" archives and "*.Z" compressed 
files.

Ashok
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                              Ashok Aiyar 
                      Department of Biochemistry
                       CWRU School of Medicine
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