> 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. HTH David
