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From: anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu (Anderss)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: .tar and .tar.Z
Message-ID: <2688@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 19:07:02 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
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Could someone tell me the difference between .tar files and .tar.Z files?

I'm using a tar extracting program that doesn't like the .tar.Z format.

anderss@ux.acs.umn.edu