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From: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: What archives.
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Date: 25 Feb 91 15:14:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.122915.11066@cns.umist.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Feb22.122915.11066@cns.umist.ac.uk> vanaards%t7@uk.ac.man.cs (vanaards) writes:

>   Don't use tar & compress, they don't retain the file type information.

Quite correct, but the tar file created by !Submit includes a little script
file which provides this information while retaining full UNIX
compatibility.

--Fil.

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