From:	"A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: tar.gz?
Date:	Thu, 03 Apr 1997 08:24:23 -0500
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Rick Dague wrote:
> 
> How do I unpack files that end in tar.gz on MSDOS? I've downloaded the
> gnu elisp manual and changed its name to elisp-ma.tgz, and using
> gunzip spits out the file elisp-ma.tar.
> 

look for djtar and djtarx in the bin subdirectory of your djgpp
installation. i think the documentation is in the info docs.

djtar is like a dry run, it does not actually extract the files
djtarx extracts the files

most of the time i just type djtar file.tar.gz to see if there are
potential name problems (valid if you are restricted to 8.3 filenames)
and then djtarx file.tar.gz to actually extract the archive. never had
any problems so far.

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