Help with archives!!!

[dcon...@news.delphi.com]

Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the
files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!

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[Harry C Pulley]

DCON...@DELPHI.COM (dcon...@news.delphi.com) wrote:
: Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the

: files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
: uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
: to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!

You need gzip. It is included with Coherent 4.2. If you have 4.0 then you
should get a copy from raven. I think it is in the sources32 directory, but
I'm not positive.

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[Christopher Sean Hilton]

>
> Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the
> files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
> uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
> to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!
>

Compression Decompression
Extension: program: program:
.Z compress uncompress/zcat
.tar.Z tar | compress uncompress/zcat | tar
.z gzip gunzip
.tar.z tar | gzip gunzip | tar
.tgz, .gtz, .taz gtar cz[opts] gtar xz[opts]

For your example:

gunzip <xxxxx.tar.z | tar xf -

should work for you. For more info look up the man pages on the
particular program.

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[Udo Munk]

> Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the
> files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
> uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
> to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!

This files are compressed with GNU zip, you'll find a port of the
package on raven and MWCBBS. If you are running Coherent 4.2 it's
included in the distribution. To uncompress a file type "gunzip
filename", to un-tar a gzipp'ed tar archive on the fly type
"tar xzvf filename.tar.z".
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[Fred Butzen]

>
> Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the
> files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
> uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
> to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!
>

Use gunzip.

[Michael Gerhards]

In article <2reigp$a...@news.delphi.com> , DCON...@DELPHI.COM wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what compression program is used to generate the
> files xxxxx.tar.z found on raven? I know the regular compress program
> uses the format xxxxx.tar.Z instead. Which program is the best one
> to uncompress these and where can it be found? Thanks!

Use gzip. The first version used the suffix .z whereas the newer ones
use .gz to avoid confusion with the program pack.

Michael
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