From: wemccaug AT prairienet DOT org (Wendy E. McCaughrin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: unable to unarchive dpmi-specs_tar.tar
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:29:35 GMT
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 I have been unable to extract (using 'ar' with -x) files
 from: dpmi-specs_tar.tar, which I downloaded from djgpp.
 Does this require a special version of 'ar' (different
 from my SunOS version)? The message I get is: "file is
 not in tar format".

 Thanks.