use of *.Tar.Z

[Dave Gilbert]

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.

You can uncompress them, using compress, and then use tar on the uncompressed
file - alternativly use gnu tar which has a command line flag for uncompressing
(I think it just pipes it through compress first)

Dave
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