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From: Toby Hutton <thutton@cybec.com.au>
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Subject: Re: .TAR problems
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 09:05:33 +1100
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Emanuele Diotallevi wrote:
> 
> Why winzip doesn't convert car_tar.tar ?
> 
> Howi must use tar.exe,the help is really awful!!!!
> 
> If there'someone that know how to convert these files please help me!
> 

I think your problem was that you downloaded the file 'car.tar.gz' with
Netscape and it likes to screw up filenames.  It puts underscores in
instead of dots and changes the .gz extension to .tar.  Stupid.  
Therefore, as you have already found out, for WinZip to extract the
files you need to put .Z or .gz back in the file name.  Or you could
use: tar xzvf car_tar.tar

Toby.