In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] (Kent Covert) writes:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>,
[log in to unmask] writes:
>>    How does one expand (decompress?)  .tar.z  files?
>
> The file needs to have the extensions of .TAR_Z.  For example, you might
> have a file called TEST.TAR_Z.  To uncompress this, use the following
> commands:
>
>     $ UNCOMPRESS TEST.TAR_Z
>     $ TAR -XVF TEST.TAR
>
 
Or, if you're lazy, type:
 
$ UNCOMPRESS TEST.TAR
 
and uncompress will add the _Z onto the filename for you :)
 
John
--
Drivel of the year:
"...DOS is utterly unable to handle more than 1MB of memory.  Removing
this limitation from DOS would result in something that just _isn't_
DOS any more--it wouldn't run existing DOS programs." -PC Mag, Nov 23,
1993.
---> OS/2? - what DOS could have been and would like to be.