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Conference napalm::guitar

Title:	GUITARnotes - Where Every Note has Emotion
Notice:	Discussion of the finer stringed instruments
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Thu Aug 14 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3280
Total number of notes:	61432

2968.0. "binary uncompressed btoa" by EVOAI2::SECU_LDV (Stratocastifiant! hein l�o?) Fri Sep 02 1994 05:31

    Hi, 
    
    I've received a document from ftp.sunet.se /pub/music/songbooks
    via ftpmail called Computersongs-1-4.Z
    the document begin with:
    -(binary uncompressed btoa)
    xbtoa begin-
    What I'm supposed to do ?
    Thanks for any help
    
    				-Fred-

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2968.1		GOES11::HOUSE	How could I have been so blind?	`Fri Sep 02 1994 12:16`	5
	I believe a .z file is usually compressed binary data put together with a ZIP utility (like PKZIP). To get at what's in it, you need an UNZIP utility, like PKUNZIP or VMSUNZIP. Greg
2968.2		FRETZ::HEISER	Maranatha!	`Fri Sep 02 1994 12:41`	1
	...or a compressed UNIX tar file.
2968.3		GOES11::HOUSE	How could I have been so blind?	`Fri Sep 02 1994 13:14`	4
	That's usually a .tar. If it's a .tar.z, then it's tarred, and then zipped. Greg
2968.4	honest	FRETZ::HEISER	Maranatha!	`Fri Sep 02 1994 14:50`	1
	...and a .tar.f is tarred and feathered.
2968.5		TAMRC::LAURENT	Hal Laurent @ COP	`Fri Sep 02 1994 15:16`	9
	re: .3 > That's usually a .tar. If it's a .tar.z, then it's tarred, and then > zipped. Actually, I believe the .z convention implies the UNIX compress utility. Files that were ZIPped usually have .ZIP rather than .z from my experience. -Hal
2968.6	No Unix	EVOAI2::SECU_LDV	Stratocastifiant! hein l�o?	`Mon Sep 05 1994 06:52`	8
	Thanks for all, But I have VMS only. is there a way to decompress it with vms? Thanks. -Fred-
2968.7	POSIX for OpenVMS, or some such rot	SSDEVO::LAMBERT	Sam, Subsystems Engineering @CXO	`Mon Sep 05 1994 11:53`	7
	I believe that if your system has the VMS POSIX-complience kit installed you get the compress/uncompress utilities with it (as well as tar, etc). But I don't know for sure, and don't know how to go about getting the POSIX kit - I'm a U*IX weenie. :-) -- Sam
2968.8	no luck	EVOAI2::SECU_LDV	Stratocastifiant! hein l�o?	`Tue Sep 06 1994 06:57`	7
	Well, I think I can delete this document because I have not Posix-complience, but I'll try to find the same document in a uncompressed version... thanks. -Fred-