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From: butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (Michael Butler)
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Subject: Re: WANTED:  TAR UNCOMPRESSOR FOR MS-DOS
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.182934.19956@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 18:29:34 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.142501.7632@hoss.unl.edu> vandevek@fergvax.unl.edu (James M. VandeVegt) writes:
>In article <444@newmedia.UUCP> jim@newmedia.UUCP (Jim Beveridge) writes:
>>In article <1991Feb13.060554.4933@hoss.unl.edu>, vandevek@fergvax.unl.edu (James M. VandeVegt) writes:
>>> {$F=1}      {Turn flame mode on}
>>> Tar is NOT a compressor.  It mearly places numerous
>>> files into one file so that they can be stored together
>>> for ease of later finding them and making sense out of them.
>>> {$F=0}
>>
>>{$F=maybe}
>>Well, actually, if you have one of the new versions of tar that
>>can automatically call compress, then it *looks* like it does
>>compression...   (I know, it really calls compress, but try
>>explaining fork(), wait(), system(), etc. to a new user.)
>>{$F=disable}
>>
>Thank you for this valuable information, I will look for a
>unix version of tar that does this.

That UNIX version of tar is gnutar with the -z option.

Mike Butler