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From: 08071TCP%MSU@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (Doug Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Unix tar uncompression
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Date: 5 Jul 90 18:16:41 GMT
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Reply-To: Doug Nelson <NELSON%MSU.EDU@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
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>I need a means of uncompressing UNIX tar files for a PC. Is there a
>PC based utility available for this?

There may be others, but PC/tar is included in FTP Software's PC/TCP
package.  It will even use rsh or rexec to access a tar file on a Unix
system directly, without a separate file transfer step.

Note that tar does not compress/uncompress files.  If you are referring
to compressed tar files (*.tar.Z), you'll need to find a PC version of
uncompress (or zcat) as well.

Doug Nelson
Michigan State University