Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 17:49:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Rick Dague <bifurcate AT geocities DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: tar.gz?
In-Reply-To: <33439D17.6758@geocities.com>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, 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.

Use DJTAR.  It comes with djdev201.zip and should be already in your bin/ 
subdirectory if you installed djdev.  The docs are in the utils.inf file 
(browsable with Info).  DJTAR can untar .tar files (such as what you have 
after running gunzip), but it can also unzip and untar in one pass, 
thereby saving you a lot of disk space for the uncompressed tar file.  It 
also makes sure no two filenames map to a single name after truncation to 
8+3 DOS limits.  More features are described in the docs, which see.

Here's how you unzip a .tar.gz archive with DJTAR:

	djtar -x elisp-ma.tgz

Without -x it will only list the contents of the archive.
If you have elisp-ma.tar, just say the same:

	djtar -x elisp-ma.tar

The program recognizes the format of the archive automagically and will 
try to unzip only those which have the ZIP signature.