Uncompress .Z files

Leslie Jordan ljordan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 18:18:32 UTC 2007


Can you just do a zcat <filename>.Z > <filename> ?

This doesn't seem to work, it just spits out a ton of the following kinds of
characters, and doesn't give me the tar file it has compressed or the
filename I specified to uncompress it to.

ÿtÿ¼tLM¼ÿ¶P¾             MÄQ
     ÿÀ     Èÿ¦û·|ù>M¼ÿ±W


On 3/6/07, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:05:55AM -0800, Leslie Jordan wrote:
> > I need to uncompress a .Z file, and realize I need to install a package.
> I
> > can not seem to find the right package to install online and a lot of
> > download sites give me a 505 error when I try to download a package. I
> am
> > running Red Hat 5.2.1.
>
>
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea what the right package for me to install is
> and
> > where I can find a working link to it?
>
> Can you just do a zcat <filename>.Z > <filename> ?
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Leslie
>
> Ray
>
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