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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date:	Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:38:59 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: tar.gz?
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Eli wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > Download gzip from the v2gnu directory of the distribution, then run:
> > 
> > gzip -d XXXXX.tar.gz
> > 
> > you'll get XXXXX.tar
> > 
> > Then use djtar -xvf XXXXX.tar and you'll get the directory structure unpacked.
> > 
> > There are several ways to do that, that's the one that give me the best 
> > results.
> 
> There's a better way.  You can say "djtar -x XXXX.tgz" without
> uncompressing with gzip, because djtar knows how to uncompress on the fly. 
> This way, you save the disk space for the intermediate .tar file. 
Last time I tried it I got some strange fail. Was with the sources of some game 
... you know ;-).
> 
> And btw, djtar doesn't accept the -v and -f options, as far as I remember.
But doesn't report any bad thing and I use it in this way under Unix.

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