Uncompressing a file

[Jade Bulante]

I have a file called jre.tar.z and I tried several ways to uncompress it but nothing works. Please let me know if you know the syntax or command.

Thanks.

[Denver Osborn]

uncompress jre.tar.z, you can then use tar on the jre.tar file.

If you have other questions regarding the installation of JRE do a search in the forums. I saw a handful of posts out there. Here's one that might be helpful.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xa27937f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

-denver

[boley janowski]

you may need to move the jre.tar.z file to a jre.tar.Z for uncompress.

cp jre.tar.z jre.tar.Z
uncompress jre.tar.Z
tar xvf jre.tar

good luck!

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

I have had this problem before. FTP the file back to windows environment and unzip it with winzip, then ftp the unzipped file back to you unix box.

[Jim Moffitt_1]

I agree with Boley, the z tag should be a capital Z.

[Wieslaw Krajewski]

Hi,

Follow the Chris' advice.

and check

man gzip

where you can find that

"... The default extension is -gz for VMS, z for
MSDOS, OS/2 FAT, Windows NT FAT and Atari.

Hope this helps.

Rgds.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

#gunzip jre.tar.z
#tar xvf jre.tar

[Chris Calabrese]

A .z extension could also mean
that the file was compressed
with 'pack' (rather than being
compressed with 'compress' and
having the '.Z' changed to '.z').

Try 'unpack '