From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kevin M Evart" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Extracting tar files Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:11:36 -0800 Message-ID: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1777185056==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104984932 13492 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 04:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 05:15:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmP3U-0005kS-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:15:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPEl-0008Gn-61 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:27:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPEY-0008F2-8x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:26:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPEX-0008EG-Ek for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPEW-0008Du-V4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.148.227.85] (helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmOzt-0001tR-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:11:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fatman (c-24-17-239-214.client.comcast.net[24.17.239.214]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2005010604114001400gos8ve>; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:11:40 +0000 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23167 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23167 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============1777185056== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0002_01C4F362.C760C910" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C4F362.C760C910 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C4F362.C760C910 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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------=_NextPart_000_0002_01C4F362.C760C910-- --===============1777185056== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs --===============1777185056==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ravi Uday Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:02:41 +0530 Organization: Cisco Systems Inc. Message-ID: <1104986246.194801@sj-nntpcache-3> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104986031 15264 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 04:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 04:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 05:33:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmPLD-0006Rm-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:33:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmPWT-0005Mc-RH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:45:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: sj-nntpcache-3!unknown@dhcp-10-77-22-219.cisco.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 22 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23168 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23168 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 - Ravi > Thank you > > > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:45:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105004944 17712 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 09:49:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 10:48:49 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmUG8-0002o2-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:48:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmURP-0002rl-4H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:00:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmUOh-0002Pj-Bf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmUOf-0002Oz-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:57:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmUOe-0002Ou-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CmUCr-00046x-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:45:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.184.133.238] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.103 #184) id 1CmUCp-0007St-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:45:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> Original-To: "Kevin M Evart" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23170 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23170 Am 06.01.2005 um 05:11 schrieb Kevin M Evart: > I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and=20 > others).=A0 I find that decompression software available on WindowsXP=20= > does not open these achieves.=A0 Could you please provide me with a=20 > means of extracting these types of files. You could try to install GNU tar yourself from=20 http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ -- or could think about the name=20 moby.tar.tar. Why is it a .tar.tar? I have only Mac OS X so I never=20 think of eXPanding things by applying a method twice -- although Mac OS=20= X has inherited the apply command from BSD. What are the results when you make the file extension single? Wasn't=20 there once a rename command? Besides R or %r in dired-mode. -- Greetings Pete From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 11:17:21 +0100 Organization: Aucune. 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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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Supersedes: Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:10:08 +0100 Organization: Aucune. 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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 From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Vishnu" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Extracting tar files Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:25:44 +0530 Message-ID: <004401c4f3e6$b2fb2e50$0800a8c0@vishnu> References: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0370834900==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105012796 5943 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 11:59:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:59:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 12:59:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmWIl-0003cU-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:59:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmWU3-0003zt-Oq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:11:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmWTq-0003xw-Sa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CmWTp-0003wt-IP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmWTp-0003wm-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 07:11:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [202.71.129.125] (helo=smtp.net4india.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CmWIH-0004lS-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 06:59:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [61.16.238.202] (helo=vishnu) by smtp.net4india.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1CmWHs-00026W-00; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:28:47 +0530 Original-To: "'Kevin M Evart'" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23173 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23173 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============0370834900== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0045_01C4F414.CCB36A50" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C4F414.CCB36A50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit http://www.powerarchiver.com ~Vishnu -----Original Message----- From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+vishnube=acmet.com@gnu.org [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+vishnube=acmet.com@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Kevin M Evart Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:42 AM To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Subject: Extracting tar files I recently downloaded some dictionary files (moby.tar.tar and others). 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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

 

------=_NextPart_000_0045_01C4F414.CCB36A50-- --===============0370834900== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs --===============0370834900==-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Extracting tar files Date: 06 Jan 2005 10:22:48 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <000101c4f3a5$d5840910$6400a8c0@FatMan> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1105025263 12250 80.91.229.6 (6 Jan 2005 15:27:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 16:27:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CmZU7-0004gd-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:23:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CmZfQ-0007Ni-6e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:35:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1105024980 5659 166.84.1.3 (6 Jan 2005 15:23:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:23:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127707 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23175 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23175 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 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 > > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo======================== Chris McMahan | cmcmahan-at-one.net ====================================