From: Alastair Donlon (adonlon at domain netsoc.ucd.ie)
Date: Tue 18 May 1999 - 16:43:29 IST
You don't really need two stages, you can do a
tar -xZf filename
to get tar to use the compress(1) program rather than
gzip(1) to uncompress the file (provided you're using
GNU tar of course ;) or else you can use
tar -xf filename --use-compress-program PROG
to use some other compression program to decompress
the file before untaring it.
Alastair.
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:08:45AM +0100, Dara wrote:
> OKly,
>
> firslty, cheers to everyone who replied to my original query.
> I got the .tar.Z file opened at last [bloody thing doesn't have what I
> want though :( ]
>
>
> secondly......wait for it.....does anybody out there want to explain why
> there are two stages in the process... ?? Or even suggest a book I could
> read.....???
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Dara
>
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