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There are only tar.z files on that site. IE content sniffing determined wrongly that it was a tar file (it has to guess). Try renaming it to tar.z from tar.tar and winzip can unzip it. Winzip is atempting to untar it instead of unzeding it.
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"Yabbadoo" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message news:Wga3e.80$p71.18@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
> Doesn't work. According to Google search, TAR files are (origibnally) tape
> back-up files, compressed. According to WinZip filetype list (within the
> prog), it can decompress TAR files. Biut it doesn't want to know this one!
> Notebook does indeed open it, but displays a series of rectangles,
> non-ASCII.
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> I gave the link - if you have the time you might like to try it - please
> advise if you have success. WinZip and WinRAR don't work.
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> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
> news:eWBeRsqNFHA.2748@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Open it in notepad then and find the word list and copy and paste it. Tar
> are just files joined together.
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> "Yabbadoo" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message
> news:sp93e.66$p71.58@newsfe3-gui.ntli.net...
>> David, it's just a word list (a dictionary without definitions)
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>> Source is http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
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>> Len.
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>> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
>> news:ORG4xwfNFHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Tar files are just files joined together. What is supposed to be in it?
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>> "Yabbadoo" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message
>> news:_vT2e.118$_M1.48@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>>> Thanks to you both, David and Will. It came from a University site. Will
>>> try
>>> again. Already tried renaming to get just mword.tar (as seemed sensible)
>>> Len
>>> "Will Denny" <willdenny@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>> news:OoILgYeNFHA.580@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Where did you download the file from? Any file with a double extension
>>>> may suggest a virus. Has the file been virus-checked before you try and
>>>> open it?
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>>>>
http://www.filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=tar
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>>>> Will Denny
>>>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>>> Please reply to the News Groups.
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>>>> "Yabbadoo" <nospam@thank.you> wrote in message
>>>> news:V%Q2e.83$_M1.60@newsfe2-win.ntli.net...
>>>>> Have d/l a datafile with extn *.tar.tar, which XP identifies as a
>>>>> WINZIP
>>>>> file. Neither WINZIP nor WINRAR will touch it. (error on header line
>>>>> 0)
>>>>> Googled - seemes it's an open-source tape file compressed, and only
>>>>> accessible via non-Windows utility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone know of a Windows XP decompressor for it?
>>>>> File is data only (370,000 words listing) - I want the data into Excel,
>>>>> eventually.
>>>>>
>>>>> Appreciate your thoughts ...
>>>>>
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