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From: roelofs@nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
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Subject: Re: Is there a MSDOS .Z uncompress utility?
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Date: 17 Apr 91 02:29:37 GMT
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jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes:

>   Am I asking for too much, or is there a way to do this conversion
>   automatically somewhere during the uncompress/tar process?

melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:

>Has GNU tar been ported to DOS?  tar xfz will do the trick, if it has
>been.

I believe Kai Uwe Rommel ported it to OS/2, and most of his executables
are family mode (i.e., executable under either DOS or OS/2).  Nose around
comp.binaries.os2...