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From: carlf@agora.rain.com (Carl Fago)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Uncompressing *.tar(shar) files on PC's
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.194910.1617@agora.rain.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 19:49:10 GMT
References: <91165.094808U10215@uicvm.uic.edu>
Organization: Open Communications Forum
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In article <91165.094808U10215@uicvm.uic.edu> U10215@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
>Is there any way of getting *.shar (tar).Z files to a PC from ftp sites
>and uncompressing some available utilities?
>
>What I know is DOS support only one file extension (fn.tar) not two file
>extensions (fn.tar.Z)?
>
>I transferred fn.tar.Z file to my PC as fn.tar and untarred it; it didn`t
>work at all.  Can you recommend some solutions?

Over on comp.binaries.ibm.pc a UNCOMPRESS for the PC was posted.  I have
seen an untar for the PC on GEnie.  So the utilities are out there.

FYI, on a .sh.Z or .tar.Z, just uncompress first and then untar or unshar.  It
is a sequential process.


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