use of *.Tar.Z

[Hendrik te Winkel]

NU142696 at NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:

>If you know how to make or unpack the *.tar.Z files, please send me some
>information. Thank you very much.

Let's presume you have a file called filename.tar.Z
Then type:
uncompress filename.tar
	#gives you filename.tar
tar xvf filename.tar
	#gives you the files from the archive

Or alternatively:
zcat filename.tar | tar xf -
which does the same.

Hendrik
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