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From: fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .TAR compress/decompressor wanted for PC
Message-ID: <8431@cg-atla.agfa.com>
Date: 4 Mar 90 20:41:23 GMT
References: <3557.25f08429@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith)
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In article <3557.25f08429@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>
>	Does anyone out there have a TAR program for the PC that allows
>you to compress and decompress UNIX .TAR files?  If so, could you please
>let me know how I can get ahold of it?  Also, is there source code for
>this for the PC?
>

A program named PAX was posted to c.b.i.p. recently (I think I saw
a note from the moderator since then about a newer one coming soon).
this program supposedly provides the functionality of both tar and cpio
for PC's. I grabbed it but haven't tried it yet, so I can't
report on it myself.

Fred