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From: "Russ Williams" <russ@algorithm.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Re: HELP (again :) ... .. the *.gz files
Date: 21 Mar 1997 23:29:13 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Jamie Stanley <cmsjstan@llivjm.ac.uk> wrote in article
<33328A8A.2C28@llivjm.ac.uk>...
> Hi there... err call me Gumple... but when a do a GZIP -D <file>.gz
> i get the file but its like overrights the orig. filename (minus the
> .gz) and the file just looks a mess... 

It should do this. It's best to work on a copy of the orignal file...

> theres weird stuff at the beginning and then the AUTO file for siocons
> and then some more stuff then some code... i think that its NOT creating
> all the separte files just sorta appending them...   .. ..

This is called a TAR file (basically it's just text representations of a
group of files joined together). What you need to do is rename the file to
(whatever).TAR then use 
	tar xvf (whatever).TAR
to extract it.

BTW - the version of GZIP I use will rename .TGZ files to .TAR after
decompressing, so it's probably possible to rename first to a TGZ file then
GZIP and detar.

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Russ