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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm
Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 22:38:17 +0100
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> I've written a new (faster) tar and at Russ's suggestion have made it
> recognise the compressed tar archives.

i'm opposed. compress/uncompress programs should do that.

tar should tar.

or write a script that uses file etc and does the right thing.
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