[SPARCbook] help

[petro]

Message: 4
Organization: DFKI Kaiserslautern GmbH, D 67663 Kaiserslautern
To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] help
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:20:15 +0100
From: Nicolai Schwindt <schwindt at dfki.uni-kl.de>
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org

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>  !) How do I extract xyz.tar.Z formatted file ?

gzip -cd xyz.tar.Z | tar xvf -

	Unless you have not yet installed gzip.

	Then you do compress -d file.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

	(or compress -d file.tar.Z ; tar -xvf file.tar)
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