From: Tim Russell (trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu)
Date: 08/20/92 

From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Re: DOS FS deleting large files?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:28:52 GMT

    Thanks to Theodore T'so for confirming my semi-suspicion that zcat/compress
was the problem. Apparently some (older?) versions treat ^C as an error
condition and delete their input.

    He says if you're not sure about the version, a good safe method is to
use "zcat < foo.Z | tar" rather than "zcat foo.Z | tar" so zcat can't delete
the file even if it tries.