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Lawrence Goetz

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96
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I have a file that is tared. On the unix machine it ends in .tar.z . Is it
tarred, or z-ed? I have winzip and tried to load it. I recognizes the file,
but askes me for the name of the file I want that's in the compressed file. I
don't know how to read the file. All I know is that this is a program that is
for a pc for ms windows. I don't know why they just didn't zip it.

If you're wondering what the program is, it's the SML programming language. My
father wanted to try it.

Thanks,

Lawrence Goetz

Fabien Bergeret

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96
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Your program has been first tared, then compressed
I have never heard of a compress.exe for Dos that would uncompress your file
There are tar.exe and pctar.exe somewhere in the web
May the Great Web Spider be with you


Lars Rosenberg Nielsen

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Mar 27, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/27/96
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Lawrence Goetz wrote:
>
> I have a file that is tared. On the unix machine it ends in .tar.z . Is it
> tarred, or z-ed? I have winzip and tried to load it. I recognizes the file,
> but askes me for the name of the file I want that's in the compressed file. I
> don't know how to read the file. All I know is that this is a program that is
> for a pc for ms windows. I don't know why they just didn't zip it.
>
> If you're wondering what the program is, it's the SML programming language. My
> father wanted to try it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lawrence Goetz

A RTFM gives :

filename.tar.gz is first tarred and then gziped.
filename.tgz is the same.

You can get windows 95' ports of many unix commands including tar, if
you don't have win 95 ->
use archie tar.exe and archie gzip.exe to find a ftp-site near you.

/lars

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Frank Reed

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Mar 31, 1996, 3:00:00 AM3/31/96
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go...@dorsai.org (Lawrence Goetz) wrote:

>I have a file that is tared. On the unix machine it ends in .tar.z . Is it
>tarred, or z-ed? I have winzip and tried to load it. I recognizes the file,
>but askes me for the name of the file I want that's in the compressed file. I
>don't know how to read the file. All I know is that this is a program that is
>for a pc for ms windows. I don't know why they just didn't zip it.

When WinZip asks for the name of the file within the compressed file,
give a name with a .tar extension. WinZip will then ask whether to
decompress the file into a temporary directory. Answer "yes". WinZip
will decompress and show a directory of files in the .tar archive.
You can then go ahead and view, extract, or whatever you wish to do.

Hope this helps - fr

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