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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Decompressing .Z files
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.173122.1360@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 24 Aug 90 17:31:22 GMT
References: <6823.26d45f9a@umiami.miami.edu> <SUHONEN.90Aug24103237@tukki.jyu.fi>
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In-Reply-To: suhonen@tukki.jyu.fi (Timo Suhonen)

In article <SUHONEN.90Aug24103237@tukki.jyu.fi>, suhonen@tukki (Timo Suhonen) writes:
|							     TAR's file
| name extension is .TAR.

tar(1) has no default suffix.  It is only by convention that most
archive sites use ".tar" to indicate that a file is stored in tar(5)
format.

Just another UNIX hacker and ST owner,
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