QUESTION: Uncompressing .Z files on windows 2K3 in batch mode

Hi, all.

I am transferring some .Z files from an AIX 5.2 box to an MS Windows
server.

I have only found one tool which has been able to extract these files,
'Winrar'. And this is not a tool that I can use to batch-extract these
files: It's a GUI tool.

I'm looking for something 'stand-alone', which will not require the
installation of an entire UNIX for Windows toolset, which will let me
uncompress these files at the command line.

The native OS's 'unzip' utility does not recognize these files as ZIP
files.

Can anyone suggest a tool which will help?

I shall continue the search, but any suggestions would be welcome.

BD

BD wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi, all.
>
> I am transferring some .Z files from an AIX 5.2 box to an MS Windows
> server.
>
> I have only found one tool which has been able to extract these files,
> 'Winrar'. And this is not a tool that I can use to batch-extract these
> files: It's a GUI tool.
>
> I'm looking for something 'stand-alone', which will not require the
> installation of an entire UNIX for Windows toolset, which will let me
> uncompress these files at the command line.
>
> The native OS's 'unzip' utility does not recognize these files as ZIP
> files.
>
> Can anyone suggest a tool which will help?
>
> I shall continue the search, but any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> BD[/color]

I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url]

[url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]

It contains a windows version of the compress util.

David

BD napisal(a):[color=blue]
> Hi, all.
>
> I am transferring some .Z files from an AIX 5.2 box to an MS Windows
> server.
>
> I have only found one tool which has been able to extract these files,
> 'Winrar'. And this is not a tool that I can use to batch-extract these
> files: It's a GUI tool.
>[/color]

Hi.

Maybe console (text) version of rar can extract .Z archives (if gui
version can do), you have it in
WinRar directory - rar.exe|unrar.exe

lownoise

> I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url][color=blue]
>
> [url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]
>
> It contains a windows version of the compress util.
>
> David[/color]

Ah, wonderful. I will try this. Thanks!

> I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url][color=blue]
>
> [url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]
>
> It contains a windows version of the compress util.
>
> David[/color]

Ah, so near and yet so far. That archive contains 'compress', but it's
'uncompress' that I need. I will look closer at that site. Thanks again.

BD <robert.drea@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url]
>>
>> [url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]
>>
>> It contains a windows version of the compress util.
>>
>> David[/color]
>
> Ah, so near and yet so far. That archive contains 'compress', but it's
> 'uncompress' that I need. I will look closer at that site. Thanks
> again.[/color]

Doesn't compress.exe -d file.Z file uncompress the file?

<<CDC

Christopher D. Clausen <cclausen@acm.org> wrote:[color=blue]
> BD <robert.drea@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url]
>>>
>>> [url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]
>>>
>>> It contains a windows version of the compress util.
>>>
>>> David[/color]
>>
>> Ah, so near and yet so far. That archive contains 'compress', but
>> it's 'uncompress' that I need. I will look closer at that site.
>> Thanks again.[/color]
>
> Doesn't compress.exe -d file.Z file uncompress the file?[/color]

Err, sorry, I had a different compress.exe

You can get a uncomp.exe that should work for you in:
[url]ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/dab/comp430d.zip[/url]

just rename comp430d.exe to uncomp.exe

<<CDC

Christopher D. Clausen wrote:[color=blue]
> BD <robert.drea@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> I got this link from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress[/url]
> >>
> >> [url]http://www.willus.com/archive/unixcmds.zip[/url]
> >>
> >> It contains a windows version of the compress util.
> >>
> >> David[/color]
> >
> > Ah, so near and yet so far. That archive contains 'compress', but it's
> > 'uncompress' that I need. I will look closer at that site. Thanks
> > again.[/color]
>
> Doesn't compress.exe -d file.Z file uncompress the file?
>
> <<CDC[/color]

You are correct here the compress with the -d option will work.

David

[color=blue]
>
> You are correct here the compress with the -d option will work.[/color]

That would appear to work.

Plus, the FTP client builds a temporary file until the file download is
complete, and then renames it to the target filename. So I could
schedule this compress -d to run every 5 minutes, and it would catch
all .Z files that have completed transfering.

If this works as planned, it will save me a good lot of time, plus
considerable manual intervention.

Thanks!