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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: .tar and .tar.Z
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Date: 10 Nov 90 00:30:09 GMT
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	.tar means you have to un-tar the file.
	.Z means you have to uncompress the file.  (.Z is kind of like 
	.ARC or .ZIP).

	So, if you had a file foo.tar.Z, you would uncompress it, giving
	foo.tar, then un-tar it giving desired files.