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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] What format is the archive of the distribution ?
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 08:50:42 -0500
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It's like a tar archive, but not quite.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~wkj/Software/9e
has a Unix program to pull the archive apart.

The 9fans archives have a perl script somewhere too.

Russ