Subject: Re: When would V2 be shipped ?
To: mmcmpope AT inet DOT uni-c DOT dk (MouseHouse)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 15:24:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (user alias)
From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>

> 
> Dear all
> 
> You have to excuse my ignorance. But: The alpha files are "snapshots" with
> a .taz extension. I must confess to never having met one of those before.

file.taz is the DOS equivalent to a file.tar.gz file. unix tar archive
gzipped (using the GNU gzip tools). You unpack this normally using
gzip -d file.taz
tar xf file.tar

Or under unix, if you have the auto-uncompressing tar (GNU)

tar zxf file.taz

> How do I depack?
> 
> -Jesper Juul
> 
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de
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