On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Brian Schmidt wrote: > I'm having "one of those moments." > > 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. > > Anyone care to enlighten me on this ridiculously simple task? first, run "file" on that file to verify that it is indeed a compressed tar file. just because it has that suffix is no guarantee. rday
