Hello, Ian;

02 Jan 03 18:09, Ian Wilmore wrote to All:

 IW> I have a file here with the extension ".TAR.Z" and I want to unpack
 IW> it. Its pretty old, '89. I thought that the unpacker untgz386.exe
 IW> would do the job but it wont touch it. Is this because the file
 IW> is indeed corrupt or am I using the wrong utility?

No guarantees, but you could try GUNZIP from GZIP13B.ZIP;

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       gunzip takes a list of  files  on  its  command  line  and
       replaces  each file whose name ends with .gz, -gz, .z, -z,
       _z or .Z and which begins with the  correct  magic  number
       with  an uncompressed file without the original extension.
       gunzip also recognizes the  special  extensions  .tgz  and
       .taz  as  shorthands  for .tar.gz and .tar.Z respectively.
       When compressing, gzip uses the .tgz extension  if  neces-
       sary instead of truncating a file with a .tar extension.
=======================[ END QUOTE ]=======================

I will file-attach it to our mutual boss with this poll.

 IW> I want to do this under DOS although the contents of the file
 IW> are possibly UNIX.

If it is Unix, with different line ends, try Horst Schaeffer's CRLF to 
convert from Unix to DOS.  CRLF is in the HORST32.ZIP/PBATS32.ZIP archive.

     Hope this helps,

              Robert.

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