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Article #10325Re: Need help with ".Z" files...
From: fred smith
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:48
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:48
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Alex "Mystic" Soto (torresce@craft.camp.clarkson.edu) wrote: : 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' BUZZ! sorry, the ".Z" extension is used by compress. The ".z" extension is used by pack. Files made with tar can have any ole extension you like, but by convention it's ".tar". Therefore, a compressed and tarred archive would be "archive.tar.Z".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!yale!hsdndev!spdcc!merk!fcshome!fredex From: fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Need help with ".Z" files... Message-ID: <9212142492@fcshome.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 92 13:48:30 GMT References: <torresce.724340604@craft.camp.clarkson.edu> Organization: What?!? Absolutely none! Lines: 20 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]