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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Uncompressing *.tar(shar) files on PC's
Message-ID: <4088@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 91 22:13:48 GMT
References: <91165.094808U10215@uicvm.uic.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <91165.094808U10215@uicvm.uic.edu> U10215@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
| 
| Dear Sir:
| 
| Is there any way of getting *.shar (tar).Z files to a PC from ftp sites
| and uncompressing some available utilities?

  Shar and tar are totally separate file formats, one being text and one
being binary.

| What I know is DOS support only one file extension (fn.tar) not two file
| extensions (fn.tar.Z)?

  The name is unimportant. Run the file (by any name) through the
decompress program, then extract the uncompressed tar with pax or
another untar program (I think there's one in the queue).

Ex:
  move fn.tar.Z to the PC as foo.

  uncompres <foo >mumble

  untar mumble
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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