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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: .TAR
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Date: 8 Aug 90 19:18:13 GMT
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GWO144@URIACC.URI.EDU (Andy Kress) writes:

>     How does one unpack .TAR files?  I have a IIgs and I am on this list
> on a CMS machine.  I guess .TAR is a UNIX packer?  Anyway...any and all
> info would be helpful.

I think you mean VMS (?)

tar is a unix _archive_ utility. It doesn't pack or compress anything.

If you have a tar file containing binscii data chunks (the tybalt.caltech.edu
FTP server has a number of these) then you don't need tar at all. Binscii can
extract its data straight out of a tar file.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu