From: Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 11/18/92


From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Subject: Re: ARGH! heh.
Date: 19 Nov 1992 01:29:43 GMT

japhet@romulus.rutgers.edu (APJ) writes:
> Basically, I'm asking what the hell command line should I use to untar
>a .tar.Z file rawritten to a 1.2M drive a:??? Thanks....

At least some versions of the root disk have a non-GNU tar, which does
not understand the z option (for working with .tar.Z type files). Try
using a pipeline with zcat and tar:

        zcat < /dev/fd0 | tar tvf -

(the above should print out the contents of the rawritten compressed
tar in the first floppy drive).