Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:05:03 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: djgpp alpha 980628
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Is there even still a need for djtar, since a port of GNU tar now
> exists?

DJTAR uncompresses on the fly, so you *will* need it when your disk
space is not enough to hold twice the uncompressed size of the file
you are unpacking.

It also provides for more flexibility when renaming files due to file
name conflicts (using the -n switch and interactively).

And with the latest addition of unzip option, it also replaces other
unzippers.