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Problem:

Customer downloaded a Fixpack, to find that it was in the format <name>.tar.encr. What does he do with such a file?

Resolution:

.encr files are encrypted, so that they can only be unpacked on a machine with a valid Micro Focus UNIX product. The approach is therefore to make sure that COBDIR and so on are set, and then to run the .encr file as an executable. It will magically transform itself into a normal .tar file, which can then be extracted in the usual way.

Old KB# 4077