uncompress and tar (was: none)

[Mav]

In article <6420 at star.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <23157 at adm.BRL.MIL>,
>	jones at mips1.uqam.ca (Jones*Peter) writes:
>)When I want to decompress a tar file, the following code works fine, albeit
>)at the expense of creating a temp file on disk:
[script deleted]
>)The following was intended to do the same thing, but when I run it, I get
>)checksum errors. I suspect the tar process is getting confused by the
>)interactive confirmations requested by the -w switch. What should I do?


Seems to me you could use the zcat program..

like: zcat xx.tar.Z |tar -xf[other flags here] -

Works for me...suppose the w command might be different.  
I'm on BSD 4.3 Tahoe (actually Gould UTX 3/2)


-- 
Mav	  					    F.U.N. X G.P.A. = CONSTANT
Internet: rowland at en.ecn.purdue.edu
UUCP: {gateway}!pur-ee!rowland