Subject: Re:tar files

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:18:48 GMT

At 02:26 18-11-1996 -0800, Grant Handford wrote:

>  I need to know how
>to convert compressed tar files into usable form.  If you could help me it
>would be very much appreciated.

If you have winzip, just do it as you would do with an ordinary zip file.
If you don't try PC/TCP Archiver or similar program.

Under Unix just use the tar command: tar -xvf <filename> (to extract files)

Best regards

                                        Mario Tulio Rosado 
                                        Dept. of Chemistry
                                        University of Madeira
                                        PORTUGAL