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Uncompress .tar.z file via Windows command Line

Hi,

I am trying to uncompress an UNIX .tar.z file from within Windows.

Can anybody help please.

Thanks

nutnut

Ara-

Do you need to do it from the command line? You can use a compression-program such as ZipGenius.

nutnut

ASKER

Yes need to get Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS) to automatically perform the uncompression so needs to be on a command line for it to run unattended

nutnut

Ara-

Gzip has executables here:
http://www.gzip.org/#exe

You could try to find tar for command line here:
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/dl/autoindex.cgi/ftp.gnu.org/tar

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Tintin

Are you absolutely sure it is a tar.z file? That would indicate it is a file compressed with the 'compact' utility which is a very old and obsolete Unix compression utility.

It is really tar.Z, then it probably has been compressed with the 'compress' utility and if it is really tar.gz, then it would have probably been compressed with 'gzip'

nutnut

ASKER

Hi Tintin

No it is definately .tar.z

thanks

nutnut

Paolo Santiangeli

7-zip did not work?

kienmanowar

You can you ZipZag to open and extract file. Download software from here: http://www.zipzag.com/. ZipZag support more extentions and include tar.z

Best Regards

gheist

And what was the file format from UNIX "file" command?
I can help with 7z command line.
ZipZag tells it does not support .tar.z, so it is most likely tar.Z, which "7z x" is able to extract.