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From: bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com (Bruce Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: .TAR
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Date: 10 Aug 90 21:33:49 GMT
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In article <m0i0CWL-0001AJC@contact.uucp>, marekp@contact.UUCP (Marek
Pawlowski) writes:
|> [...]
|>    This will remove the files from that archive, in to the current
directory.
|> Other common suffixes are ".Z" and ".zoo", the first is Unix compressed, you
                                       ^^^^ 
  Not quite... .zoo or .ZOO is an MS-DOS format.  Unix may support it if you
or your system admin have ported the ZOO source code.  Using uncompress on
a .ZOO file wont work (at least not on any un/compress programs Ive ever
run across)...

|> uncompress by simply using: uncompress file_name
|>    The "-e" option on the zoo utility on most Unix systems will remove and
|> "unpack" any files in the archive...
|>  
  
  I dont know about a lot of other Unix users but our SYSV and BSD 4.3 systems
here do not have a -e option... Guess yours is special...

|> [...]

						Bruce (bkahn@archive.rtp.dg.com)