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Re: tar question (probably a newbie question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Tue Nov 10 13:37:09 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 08:55:48 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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Charles Galpin wrote:
>
> two things
>
> a capital Z usually means it was compressed with the command "compress", and
> should be uncompressed with "uncompress"
>
> Then use
>
> tar xf prog.tar
>
> or tarxvf prog.tar to see the files as they untar
GNU tar will support gzip as well as compressed files, use:
tar xvZf fn (for the compress'd file)
tar xvzf fn (for the gzip'd file)
J
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