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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: 'tar' for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.172415.19276@uwasa.fi>
Date: 24 Sep 90 17:24:15 GMT
References: <90267.033422DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <90267.033422DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu> DLV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Dwaine VanBibber) writes:
>Does anyone know if 'tar' exists for MS-DOS? I need to extract some *.tar-z
>files. Thanks

The new version just came in comp.binaries.ibm.pc
It is called pax (not tar) that's why this is asked so
often. But if you need to extract tar-z then you need also
uncompress (or decompress). You can find both kind of
programs from (chyde.)uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3). Look into
pc/unix dir.

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