I need to uncompress a file with a .Z ending. When in the terminal window, and with the correct path to the file, I type uncompress then the filename and I get an error that sais: uncompress: corrupt input. What do I do?

hello do the following let me know if this works: Tar and uncompress are part of most versions of UNIX. Unwrapping a .Z file in UNIX Ensure that the file to be uncompressed has a .Z extension. Type: uncompress filename where filename is the name of the file to be uncompressed (e.g. uncompress xxxx001.e00.Z). in case you have a tar file with .Z then do the following Unwrapping a .tar.Z file in UNIX Ensure that the file has a .tar.Z extension. Type: uncompress filename where filename is the name of the file to be uncompressed (e.g. uncompress xxxx001.tar.Z). Type: tar -xvf filename where filename is the name of the tar archived (e.g. tar -xvf xxxx001.tar). following Unwrapping a .tar.Z file in UNIX Ensure that the file has a .tar.Z extension. Type: uncompress filename where filename is the name of the file to be uncompressed (e.g. uncompress xxxx001.tar.Z). Type: tar -xvf filename where filename is the name of the tar archived (e.g. tar -xvf xxxx001.tar).

this may or may not be relevant. I often find that if you download a file in windoze then it appends its own ending onto the file and then hides it from the user. If you ftp it to a unix boxen then it has the wrong extension. Try renaming your file to whatever.Z and using uncompress. This will take the file which already has compressed data and give it the right extension for uncompress to use. good luck.