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* Extracting tar files
@ 2005-01-06  4:11 Kevin M Evart
  2005-01-06  9:45 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Kevin M Evart @ 2005-01-06  4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)



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I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and others).  I
find that decompression software available on WindowsXP does not open these
achieves.  Could you please provide me with a means of extracting these
types of files.

Thank you

 


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* Re: Extracting tar files
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@ 2005-01-06  4:32 ` Ravi Uday
  2005-01-06 10:17 ` Sébastien Kirche
  2005-01-06 11:10 ` Sébastien Kirche
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From: Ravi Uday @ 2005-01-06  4:32 UTC (permalink / raw)




Kevin M Evart wrote:

> I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and others).  
> I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP does not open 
> these achieves.  Could you please provide me with a means of extracting 
> these types of files.
> 
   Not sure how you do untarring in windows ( with cygwin installed you 
could try)
   But on *nix* machines you can try
   tar -xvf <tar filname>

- Ravi


> Thank you
> 
>  
> 

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* Re: Extracting tar files
  2005-01-06  4:11 Extracting tar files Kevin M Evart
@ 2005-01-06  9:45 ` Peter Dyballa
  2005-01-06 11:55 ` Vishnu
       [not found] ` <mailman.11360.1105005462.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2005-01-06  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: help-gnu-emacs


Am 06.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kevin M Evart:

> I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and 
> others).  I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP 
> does not open these achieves.  Could you please provide me with a 
> means of extracting these types of files.

You could try to install GNU tar yourself from 
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ -- or could think about the name 
moby.tar.tar. Why is it a .tar.tar? I have only Mac OS X so I never 
think of eXPanding things by applying a method twice -- although Mac OS 
X has inherited the apply command from BSD.

What are the results when you make the file extension single? Wasn't 
there once a rename command? Besides R or %r in dired-mode.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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* Re: Extracting tar files
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  2005-01-06  4:32 ` Ravi Uday
@ 2005-01-06 10:17 ` Sébastien Kirche
  2005-01-06 11:10 ` Sébastien Kirche
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From: Sébastien Kirche @ 2005-01-06 10:17 UTC (permalink / raw)


Le 6 Jan 2005, Kevin M. Evart a dit :

> I recently  downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar  and others). I
> find  that decompression  software available  on WindowsXP  does  not open
> these achieves.  Could you  please provide me  with a means  of extracting
> these types of files.

Maybe you could take a look on FilZip, a small freeware windows [de]archiver
that can handle many formats. Tar is amongst them.

HTH

Sébastien Kirche

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* Re: Extracting tar files
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  2005-01-06  4:32 ` Ravi Uday
  2005-01-06 10:17 ` Sébastien Kirche
@ 2005-01-06 11:10 ` Sébastien Kirche
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sébastien Kirche @ 2005-01-06 11:10 UTC (permalink / raw)


Le 6 Jan 2005, Kevin M. Evart a dit :

> I recently  downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar  and others). I
> find  that decompression  software available  on WindowsXP  does  not open
> these achieves.  Could you  please provide me  with a means  of extracting
> these types of files.

Maybe you could take a look on FilZip, a small freeware windows [de]archiver
that can handle many formats. Tar is amongst them.

http://www.filzip.com/

HTH

Sébastien Kirche

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* RE: Extracting tar files
  2005-01-06  4:11 Extracting tar files Kevin M Evart
  2005-01-06  9:45 ` Peter Dyballa
@ 2005-01-06 11:55 ` Vishnu
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From: Vishnu @ 2005-01-06 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: help-gnu-emacs


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http://www.powerarchiver.com <http://www.powerarchiver.com/> 
 
~Vishnu
 
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Subject: Extracting tar files
 
I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and others).
I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP does not open
these achieves.  Could you please provide me with a means of extracting
these types of files.
Thank you
 

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* Re: Extracting tar files
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@ 2005-01-06 15:22   ` Chris McMahan
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From: Chris McMahan @ 2005-01-06 15:22 UTC (permalink / raw)


I've seen Internet Explorer mislabel the default file name to
tar.tar. If you look at the status bar when hovering over the link,
you can get the actual file name (or switch to Firefox!).

This has happened to me with tar.gz and tar.bz2 files.

- Chris

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 06.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kevin M Evart:
> 
> > I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and
> > others).  I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP
> > does not open these achieves.  Could you please provide me with a
> > means of extracting these types of files.
> 
> You could try to install GNU tar yourself from
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ -- or could think about the name
> moby.tar.tar. Why is it a .tar.tar? I have only Mac OS X so I never
> think of eXPanding things by applying a method twice -- although Mac
> OS X has inherited the apply command from BSD.
> 
> What are the results when you make the file extension single? Wasn't
> there once a rename command? Besides R or %r in dired-mode.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> 
> 

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