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From: forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: TAR on 3b1
Summary: TAR command (out-of-the-box)
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <136@morwyn.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 91 23:29:20 GMT
Organization: CREATIVE CONNECTIONS - Dover, NH - USA
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I have the development set 3.51 installed... in many messages and so 
forth on the net, I have seen the tar command invoked as:

	zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -

whereby it doesn't require you to uncompress the file first before 
extracting it's contents.  Well, after many trials, I cannot seem 
to get the 3b1 tar command to cooperate with this approach, and I 
wonder if anyone out there has a solution to this issue.

I tried to get the GNU tar command to compile on this machine with
absolutely no luck, so that's out (unless someone else got lucky).

It's a real pain to have to uncompress LARGE files first in order
to extract the contents...  if you know what I mean.

Thanks,

Forrie

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