From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: unable to unarchive dpmi-specs_tar.tar
Date: 5 Jan 1999 17:53:01 GMT
Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden
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Wendy E. McCaughrin (wemccaug AT prairienet DOT org) wrote:
: 
:  I have been unable to extract (using 'ar' with -x) files
:  from: dpmi-specs_tar.tar, which I downloaded from djgpp.
:  Does this require a special version of 'ar' (different
:  from my SunOS version)? The message I get is: "file is
:  not in tar format".

It's what it says: it's in tar format. Tar is not ar. Use the program
"tar". 


Right,

							MartinS