[9428] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.4E: uncompress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Jun 9 01:49:16 1992
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 92 01:48:59 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: jfed@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9425]
First of all, a file uncompressed from filename.tar.Z would end up
named filename.tar, not filename as you reported in your bug report.
Second, it is almost always wrong to uncompress a .tar.Z file and then
untar it. It is far better to do "zcat filename.tar.Z | tar xvf -",
which requires only one uncompressed copy of the files on disk.
Third, the "I/O error" message you got means that you were over quota
in the locker in which you tried to uncompress the files, or that you
did not have permission to write there. It is almost certainly not
due to a bug in uncompress.
Please check with Athena's user consultants when having a problem,
before reporting it to bugs. You can do that by using the "olc"
program, or by calling x3-4435, or by stopping by 11-115.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
