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> That's it. And contains no (C) or version infos.
>
> SUGGESTION to the maintainer (DJ Delorie ?):
> 
> Please add some more info in the next version
> (into the DJTAR.EXE):
> - (C) ...
> - Version
> - Supported archive types
> - Version of BZ2 it is based on
> - Short info how to create & extract archives

djtar is only for extracting djgpp's files and the source tarballs, so
it really isn't worth the effort to worry about that kind of thing.

> GNU TAR (TAR.EXE) allows to create and extract TAR archives, right ?

Yes.  Use GNU tar.

> DJTAR supports TAR, GZ, BZ2, ZIP, TAR.GZ & TAR.BZ2, but extraction
> only, right ?

Right.

> Is a separate version needed to run in the "DOS"-BOX of XP ??? Not
> running elsewhere (FreeDOS, MSDOS, DOS-BOX-W98, ... ) ?

No.