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From: terra@diku.dk (Morten Welinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .1 archive format?
Keywords: simtel20
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.134807.3314@diku.dk>
Date: 7 Feb 90 13:48:07 GMT
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Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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laba-1ee@e260-4g.berkeley.edu (Gary H. Aochi) writes:

>Does anyone know what the following format means?

>EMACS15E.ARC.2
>	     ^

It is a 'file generation number'. Just ignore it and type
  tenex
  get EMACS15E.ARC

>I know of arc, zip, tar, unix compress ...

Your turn: How do I uncompress a .tar file? (With tar I get an error
telling me that no tape is mounted; I know that!)

terra@freja.diku.dk: Morten Welinder