From: Marc G Fournier (marcf@nexus.yorku.ca)
Date: 04/06/93 

From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
Subject: Re: Can't uncompress mailx-5.3a.tar.z
Date: 7 Apr 1993 01:38:36 GMT

kkc@stat.nursing.arizona.edu (Kee Chua) writes:

>Hi,
> A few days ago, someone posted that the BSD style mail is now available. I
>obtained it (mailx-5.3a.tar.z) from sunsite and try to uncompress it. However,
>uncompress complains that this file is not in compressed format. What's wrong?
>I did ftp it using binary mode.

        try one of:

        gzip -d filename.z to uncompress (not positive of this one)

                or
        
        zcat filename.tar.z | tar xvof -

        zcat is linked to gzip...not sure about uncompress

marc