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From: delaunay@irisa.fr (Ch. Delaunay)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: pkarc/pkxarc and/or pkzip/pkunzip for unix
Summary: tar x[v]f
Keywords: arc, zoo, unzip for unix
Message-ID: <1504@irisa.irisa.fr>
Date: 26 Sep 89 08:40:39 GMT
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In article <468@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> packer@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Michael A Packer,Knapp Hall,,2928607) writes:
>From article , by w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen):
>> ARC and ZOO for Unix are available from SIMTEL20.  ARCSRC.TAR-Z will
>> handle PKWare's squashing as well as the ARC compression methods.
>>[...] 
>> The filename.TAR-Z files should be renamed to filename.tar.Z after
>> transfer to your Unix host.  These files were compressed with a
>> Unix-compatible compress program.
>> 
>
>please excuse my ignorance, but I have attempted to find the solution
>here at school and noone can seem to answer my question concerning the
>tar file.
>
>Keith says to remember to rename the file to  filename.tar.Z 
>I can get this far, and i can even go as far as to uncompress it.
>But this is where the problem starts.  What do I do with the tar'ed file?
>i know it is a Tape Archive somthing or other but I don't know what to do
>with this... please help.....

Hi!

Please excuse me if this information is posted several times but I just
received this article and no reply yet.  After uncompressing ".tar.Z"
file "file.tar.Z", just give the command "tar xf file.tar" or "tar xvf
file.tar".  Adding the v switch to your command let tar display every
filename it unarchives onscreen.  It may be useful if the ".tar" file
creates a special directory for unarchiving.

If you also want to "unzip" files on your unix machine, try the "unzip"
program that was sent on comp.sources.misc.  I received and compiled it
yesterday on a sun workstation running 4.2bsd.  It works fine for me but
it doesn't seem to unzip auto-extractable zip files.

>
>I think this might be worth posting instead of mail to me...I am sure
>that I can't be the only one not knowing how to do this.

Hope it can help and won't overcharge the net tomuch.
Regards,


>by the way keith you are doing a great job!

I think so, many many thanks Keith!

Christophe Delaunay
e-mail: "delaunay@irisa.irisa.fr" or
"...!!mcvax!irisa!delaunay".