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Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 09:32:11 -0500
From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm
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>> I'd think the plumber could be drawn into this?
>>
>> bunzip2 < abc.tar.bz2 | {cd somewhere && tar xv}
>>
>> is my usual way to deal with this.
>>
>
> good idea to plumb tar file. my preference is fs/tarfs.

In case no one has noticed, tarfs/tapefs is in man
sections 1 and 4, with the only difference being that
the section 1 variant documents zipfs.

Sam