To:	kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com
Cc:	mmcmpope AT inet DOT uni-c DOT dk, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: When would V2 be shipped ?
Date:	Wed, 3 May 1995 08:00:49 PDT
From:	Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>

In message <9505031251 DOT AA03077 AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com DOT bloomberg DOT com>,   writes:
>   Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:42:55 -0800
>   From: mmcmpope AT inet DOT uni-c DOT dk (MouseHouse)
>
>   Dear all
>
>   You have to excuse my ignorance. But: The alpha files are "snapshots" with
>   a .taz extension. I must confess to never having met one of those before.
>   How do I depack?
>
>   -Jesper Juul
>
>
>.taz files are tar archive files which have been compressed with gzip.  You 
>will need to gunzip them and them use tar (or djtarx which is part of the
>binutils distribution) to untar the archive.
>
>-- 
>Art S. Kagel, kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

I really think we should use zip for msdos files...

Doing lots of shuffling between DOS and Unix for years, zip has the following
nice features:
	1) automatic ascii file conversion (a good guesser of "what's ascii and
	what's not" (i.e. end of line)
	2) if you run dos, you can leave the compressed files around...
	On unix you can pipe, but you can't on dos...
	
I end up untarring on Linux, then have to do dos2unix on all the ascii files
for cross development work...

marty

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