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From: tep@tots.UUCP (Tom Perrine)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Unix tar uncompression
Message-ID: <151@tots.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jul 90 20:17:06 GMT
References: <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com>
Reply-To: tep@tots.Logicon.COM (Tom Perrine)
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In article <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com> jbvb@vax.ftp.com writes:
>>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a
>>PC based utility available for this?
>
>Our PC/TCP product has a TAR.EXE which can assemble and disassemble
>Unix-compatible tar files either locally or over the network.  Sun's
>PC_NFS also has a network TAR.  If you want to "uncompress" a Unix
>.tar.Z file (made by piping 'tar' into 'compress'), you'll have to
>use 'uncompress' on the Unix system first.
>
>James B. VanBokkelen		26 Princess St., Wakefield, MA  01880
>FTP Software Inc.		voice: (617) 246-0900  fax: (617) 246-0901

Implmentations of the (originally UNIX) utility "compress" are
available for several micro systems. I personally know of one for the
Amiga and one for the Mac. There should be one for PCs. Try
comp.sys.ibm.pc...

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