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RE: tar question (probably a newbie question)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Daigle)
Tue Nov 10 14:11:46 1998
From: "Tim Daigle" <Tim_Daigle@cw.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:23:56 -0500
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Sorry improper terminology there, I actually did use "compress -d
program.tar.Z". I'll try the tar xf command next and see if that makes any
diff.
Thanks
>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
>
>hth
>charles
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