Re: [ARC] GZIP

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:53 AM 8/5/98 +0100, you wrote:
>I have trouble to unpack the new archive files from
>ftp://ftp.digest.net/bmw/. Could someone send me the right program please.

to unpack the archive files on a pc, you need the following:

windows 95 or 98 (the filenames are unix file names that don't map into the
old 8.3 convention.)

an archive program such as winzip, which can unpack tar files and
uncompress gzip files.

the unpacking will take two steps: you will need to reverse the gzip
compression, creating a temporary tar file, and you will then need to
extract the tar archive.

this is all much easier on a un*x or linux box:

tar xzf bmw-digest.v5.tgz

is sufficient.

at some point in time, i may do a conversion to a zip archive with
filenames that map into 8.3, but right now i don't have time for that project.

richard

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