use of *.Tar.Z

[Jon Hamilton]

edw at sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) writes:

>In article <91063.211126NU142696 at NDSUVM1.BITNET> 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.

>try zcat  or uuencode
>then use tar to extract the unpacked archive
>-- 
zcat perhaps, but uuencode?  .Z indicates a compressed file.  the most
obvious way to uncompress it is...with uncompress!  after you're done with
that, then you can untar it using tar...

> I think I've got the hang of it now .... :w  :q  :wq  :wq! ^d  X exit
> X Q  :quitbye  CtrlAltDel   ~~q  :~q  logout  save/quit :!QUIT ^[zz
> ^[ZZ ZZZZ  ^H  ^@  ^L  ^[c  ^# ^E ^X ^I ^T  ?  help  helpquit ^D  ^d
> ^C ^c helpexit ?Quit ?q  decwrl or uunet or tek !sequent!edw 
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         Jon Hamilton
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