how do I unzip a tar file with telnet

[julieA]

Ok. I used ftp to upload my calendar.tar into my cgi bin. I even managed to log on with telnet (i think). But I'm lost at the prompt. I typed help and there is no "is" command to find my file (as I saw suggested in a search of former postings here). I can't even find my file to attempt to unzip it. Anyone have ANY suggestions? After I unzip it I am supposed to set permissions on these files. I saw a posting on doing that with ws-ftp but the installation instructions say these permissions may be set by default so maybe I just need to wait and see if they work after they are unzipped. Can anyone help me unzip them?
The calendar script I am trying to work with is at
http://mkruse.netexpress.net/scripts/calendar/download/
:([nbsp][nbsp]Sad at my lack of knowledge but looking forward to learning,
julieA
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[Deb]

You may want to visit http://www.aota.net/cgi-bin/FAQ/fom and click the telnet link for a whole bunch of basic commands... which include commands on to change directories and view what's within them...

Assuming you are in the same directory as the file, at your unix prompt type: tar xvf calaendar.tar

x stands for eXtract
v stands for Verbose (see the files on the screen)
the f stands for Files

Hope this helps
Deb

[Jacob Stetser]

Quick decompression tutorial....

If a file ends in .zip (for example, file.zip)

use unzip file.zip

If a file ends in .gz (for example, file.gz)

use gzip -d file.gz

If a file ends in .tar (e.g., file.tar)

use tar -xvf file.tar

If a file ends in .tar.gz (e.g. file.tar.gz)

use gzip -d file.tar.gz

<font color=#FF0000>and then</font>

tar -xvf file.tar

I hope that all helps!
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[This message has been edited by Jacob Stetser (edited 04-29-99)]

[julieA]

You guys are the greatest. I'm going to try again later today when I can concentrate. (That's hard to do with the children milling around.) I'll let you know how it goes.
Thank YOU! :)
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[hawkman]

If I've got a .tgz file then?

[Terra]

GNU tar sports internal decompression routines:

$tar -xvzf file.tgz
or
$tar -xvzf file.tar.gz

z==use (de)compression routines

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[Charles Capps]

While we're on the topic of compression and stuff...[nbsp][nbsp]What is a .bz file?[nbsp][nbsp]It's SOME sort of archive, but I couldn't decompress it....
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[Terra]

.bz is a new compression scheme that crunches stuff tighter than gzip or zip at the expense of time and CPU...

It uses the Burrows-Wheeler block-sorting text compression algorithm and Huffman coding, instead of the LZ77/LZ78 family of compressors (pkzip/gzip/etc...)...

.bz and .bz2 uses bzip2

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[hawkman]

Hi!

Now I have tried what Terra suggested, but it doesn't work.
I've tried whith different versions of the scriptfile I'm trying to decompress, but It doesn't work. Is it possible that two different files are corrupt? The file are located in www.webbolaget.com/mailman (http://www.webbolaget.com/mailman). I would appreciate if someone could help me out!

[Charles Capps]

Oh, that's all I need, another compression program to learn.[nbsp][nbsp]*L*

Hawkman: No errors?
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[Terra]

I checked those 2 .tgz files and they are both corrupt...

Try to re-download those files - make sure you transfer them in BINARY mode and *not* ASCII...

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