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From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you unarchive with TAR?
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Date: 21 Nov 90 16:55:22 GMT
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s887212@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Stephen Riehm [Romulis]) writes:

>therefor I recommend:
>tar -xfvo <filename>

	... except that not all implementations support the -o (set ownership
	to that of extractor) option. SCO's Xenix and UNIX, for example, do
	not support it.