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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Just a moment of your time. Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Sat, 8 May 1993 18:00:30 GMT Message-ID: <C6pzCu.LDC@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <1sebi1INN9uf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Lines: 14 In <1sebi1INN9uf@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> edmudama@athena.mit.edu (Eric Danforth Mudama) writes: >I tried to uncompress it, as is customary with any file named xxx.tar.z, and I >got the error that it wasn't in compressed format. A lower case z as extensions hints that the file was compress with GNU gzip. You need gunzip to uncompress it. (It might be compressed with System V pack, but gzip handles that too.) -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug Gwyn--I only care whether Doug Gwyn is cool enough to quote. -- Larry Wall