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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: FAQ -- Question #1(Next public domain software).
Message-ID: <1127@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 91 03:13:38 GMT
References: <P5NPV1w163w@exactus.UUCP> <Fe7h6#94@cs.psu.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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For those of you without FTP access (you're missing SOOOOO much),
send mail to  archive-server@cc.purdue.edu  with  Subject: help
and no message text.

In article <Fe7h6#94@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu
	(Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>    tar xf filename.tar
>
>Files ending with .tar.Z are compressed archives that can be unpacked
>by typing
>
>   zcat filename.tar.Z | tar xf -

tar xopf  is more appropriate in nearly all cases.  I generally
toss a "v" in there too.

					-=EPS=-