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From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Unix tar uncompression
Summary: compress...
Message-ID: <431@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 90 06:27:09 GMT
References: <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com>
Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska
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In article <9007061308.AA11078@vax.ftp.com>, jbvb@VAX.FTP.COM (James B. Van Bokkelen) 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.
> 
The 16 bit compress distributed with BNEWS compiles fine on DOS.  And
works the same.

Tim Brown
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