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- From: jhgreen@cs.sandia.gov (Jethro H. Greene)
- Subject: Re: how do I extract rzsz9202.tar-z?
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- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 00:11:23 GMT
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- In article <93Jan17.180508.25956@acs.ucalgary.ca> grady@acs.ucalgary.ca (A. Brian Grady) writes:
- >I got the file rzsz9202.tar-z from the SIMTEL archives, but when
- >I run "tar -xf filename" it seems to find the wrong # of bytes in
- >the file. What do I need to do?
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- filename.Z means that filname is compressed. Type:
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- uncompress filename
- tar -xf filname
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- (Also, be sure that you typed binary before you FTPed it.)
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- Jethro H. Greene
- Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory,
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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