uncompress

[Brian Schmidt]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, David Cornish wrote:

> > I'm trying to uncompress a *.tar.Z file, but not having much luck.  In the
> > past, I always typed "uncompress *.tar.Z", but that doesn't seem to work
> > anymore.  I thought perhaps I could use tar, but either it's not going to
> > work or I've just got my syntax incorrect.  I looked at its man page, and
> > it looks ok, but doesn't work.
>
> Is it actually a .Z or a .gz pretenting to be a .Z?  'file xxxxx.tar.Z' would
> be your friend in this case.  tar xz is for gzip files, tar xZ for compress
> files.

Here's what I got:
[bts at papageorgio bts]$ file spider.tar.Z
spider.tar.Z: compress'd data 16 bits

I then went ahead and did "tar zxvf spider.tar.Z" and it uncompressed just
fine!

Thanks,
Brian

>
> HTH
>
> David
>
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