Re: [ILUG] .tar.Z files ?????

From: Liam Bedford (lbedford at domain wbtsystems.com)
Date: Mon 17 May 1999 - 17:57:42 IST


In message <Pine.LNX.4.05.9905171636410.16842-100000 at domain snet.wit.ie>, Dara writes:

>Anyway, I got the file called 'linpack.tar.Z', 'cos I figured it would be
>library files for linux ! Maybe I'm wrong, but I couldn't find out
>because I can't open the file. I used to use winzip and do it in dos, and
>transfer the files, but I lost that.
>
>How can I do it in linux ???
couple of ways:
1) linux% uncompress linpack.tar.Z
   linux% tar xvpf linpack.tar.Z

2) linux% gunzip linpack.tar.Z
   linux% tar xvpf linpack.tar.Z

3) linux% tar zxvpf linpack.tar.Z

4) linux% zcat -d linpack.tar.Z | tar xvpf -

.Z is the UNIX compress algorithm, which gunzip and uncompress can uncompress.
tar can also uncompress it (by running gzcat on it) with the z flag.

Regards
L.

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