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From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: Tar uncompression for the PC
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Date: 5 Feb 91 01:29:42 GMT
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In article <1375@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> bjames@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Binoy James [890904]) writes:
>Is there a program for the PC that will uncompress a tar file.  

You don't "uncompress tar files", though tar files (like other
files) might start out compressed.

Simtel (wuarchive.wustl.edu) has a program compr16 somewhere
which is a 16-bit compress/uncompress.  Using this you turn a
file xx.tar.Z into xx.tar, now you need a tar to unpack the
tarfile.

MKS Toolkit bundles a nice tar.  I don't have personal experience
with a good public domain tar (I haven't looked hard).  On Unix,
you would

	tar xf tarfilename

MKS Toolkit is generally the best thing to add to a vanilla DOS
machine.  Check it out; you'll never care about anemic Microsoft
OSish offerings again.

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