Use the 'z' option to tar to tell it the tar file or device
	should be gzipped.

	eg: tar xvzf /dev/<device>

		David/absolute

- I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am
- a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have
- never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood.

On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:28:19 -0600
> From: "J. Buck Caldwell" <buck_c@polygon.com>
> To: port-vax@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: A MiniRoot Question
> 
> Now that I've got the 1.3 binaries, what do I do with them? Sorry,
> rhetorical question.
> 
> Actual question: Does the miniroot include gunzip, and if so, how does
> one retrieve a file from TK50, gunzip it, and untar it at the same time?
> I used to gunzip the files on my PC, send the tars to my work's vax
> (over LAT), put the tars on TK50, copy the tars from the TK50 onto my
> ra1 on the uVII, and untar them. Needless to say, there must be an
> easier way.
> 
> --
> J. Buck Caldwell
> 
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