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In article <1992Oct14.233923.2341@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> Anyway, I define the following two aliases:
> alias zcatt 'zcat \!* | tar -tf -'
> alias zcatx 'zcat \!* | tar -xf -'
> 
> Advantage:  I can open a Stuart window on the machine that actually has  
> the hard disk, type zcatt file.tar.Z, and not have to spew the stuff  
> back and forth across the net.  It also doesn't paralyse my workspace  
> while it's crunching away.

Your zcatx is nearly what Opener does.  In my case, of
course, the Archives are NFS mounted (on nova), so
there's a bit of network traffic anyway.

The local users I referred to are people who use sonata
directly, so they don't have to worry about network
traffic either. :-)


You are right that those are useful aliases.  If you use
gnutar, you don't need to pipe from compress (zcat)
either: 

alias zcatt 'gnutar -ztf \!*'
alias zcatx 'gnutar -zxf \!*'

and you might want to stick -v in there too.  I find it
helpful. 

ab