Dear friends, i'm trying to uncompress an "...... tar.z" file.
I'd readen that using the "uncompress" command it could be made but............... God! I can't!!!!!
I tried a lot of times using the Terminal but the uncompress command doesn't obeys!!! .

Please i need to know how to uncompress a single, oh God a single file with Unix please help me!!!!!!
Thanks and regards!!!!!!!!.
From Mars...
GusSiglo21

Which system are you using? What command are you typing? What result do you get?

uncompress can expand something like this:
uncompress file.Z

Note that the Z is uppercase. If you have a lowercase z, you could rename the file. Or try
uncompress < file.z > file

Lowercase z was used by the old pack/unpack commands. So another thing to try:

unpack file.z

If you still have no luck, don't simply say "the command didn't obey". Say something like "on HP-UX 11.0, I tried the command "uncompress file.z" but I got an error message "file.z.Z: No such file or directory".

what about unzip.

-r-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 157968 Dec 16 1999 /usr/bin/unzip

Try to use command 'file' to view the description of the file.

file test.Z
test.Z: compressed data block compressed 16 bits

file test1.gz
test1.gz: gzip compressed data - deflate method , original file name

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