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From: jerry@gumby.Altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Tar uncompression for the PC
Message-ID: <4683@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 18:25:35 GMT
References: <1375@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Reply-To: jerry@altos.COM (Jerry Gardner)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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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.  

Tar files aren't compressed.  There was a package called Pax posted to
comp.binaries.ibm.pc recently that included both tar and cpio.