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Article #7316Re: Tar uncompression for the PC
From: Ajay Shah
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 01:29
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 01:29
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In article <1375@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> bjames@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Binoy James [890904]) writes:
>Is there a program for the PC that will uncompress a tar file.
You don't "uncompress tar files", though tar files (like other
files) might start out compressed.
Simtel (wuarchive.wustl.edu) has a program compr16 somewhere
which is a 16-bit compress/uncompress. Using this you turn a
file xx.tar.Z into xx.tar, now you need a tar to unpack the
tarfile.
MKS Toolkit bundles a nice tar. I don't have personal experience
with a good public domain tar (I haven't looked hard). On Unix,
you would
tar xf tarfilename
MKS Toolkit is generally the best thing to add to a vanilla DOS
machine. Check it out; you'll never care about anemic Microsoft
OSish offerings again.
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