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- From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
- Subject: Re: how do I extract rzsz9202.tar-z?
- Message-ID: <fYs6a20@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Summary: rename them first
- Keywords: tar zcat compress
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- Date: 26 Jan 1993 06:40:25 UTC
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- In article <1993Jan23.102802.13303@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> schwim@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Rosebud) writes:
-
- >uncompress < rzsz9202.tar-z | tar xvf -
- >
- >Of course, it's probably simplest to download files from an archive
- >that has capital letters. The lower case z extension is supposed to
- >be for pack not compress.
-
- Actually, it's simplest to rename the file first to something reasonable like
- rzsz9202.tar.Z, then use:
-
- tar -xzvf rzsz9202.tar.Z
-
- to extract it. -z, if your tar has it, means to handle compressed files.
-
- >-= Larry Schwimmer (schwim@xenon.stanford.edu)
-
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