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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle)
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Subject: Re: extracting programs
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Date: 8 Nov 90 21:15:54 GMT
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In article <6117@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> YEE@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Roger Yee) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I am in a bit of trouble.  A friend sent me a program via email and thought
>I was on a UNIX system but I am on a VAX system.  The problem is trying
>to uncompress the file.  It has the extensions .tar.z and I have to do all
>of this on the pc.  My uudecode process doesn't recognize the .tar.z and if
>I try to rename the program in the text to ***.z, then uudecode it it works.
>Roger Yee  (YEE@KCGL1.ENG.OHIO-STATE.EDU)

DETAR11.ARC  PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Process a TAR file on PC                     
PDTAR.ARC    PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Read/write TAR files on PC                  
TAR.ZIP      PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Unix-compatible TAR archive maker/extractor
PAX2EXE.ZIP  PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for MS-DOS

These are all available at simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory 
listed above (PD1:<MSDOS.xxxxx> )  or at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
in mirrors/msdos/xxxxx.

There used to be a file called TAR-Z.ARC in the directory also, but it seems
to have disappeared (Keith?).  I don't know if any of these can handle the 
.Z as well.

Hope it helps.
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