question about tar.Z file

Wed May 22 23:29:28 AEST 1991

In article <1991May22.005816.1351 at cse.uta.edu> khwang at cse.uta.edu (khwang) writes:

   Does anyone out there how I can teansfer a tar.Z file to ASCII readble
   file ? I tried uncompress, for example, a.tar.Z then I got an a.tar then
   what next ? Your reply will be greatly appreciated !

If you're short on disk space, you can go directly from a tar.Z file
to "ASCII readable."  Try the following:

	zcat a.tar.Z | tar xvf -

--Chuck