Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:03:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Donald Stevens wrote:

> But I am wondering whether there is a better dos
> version of    tar.exe.    The one I used has a date
> of 9/22/94 and has length   34,199

You should have used djtar.exe, which is part of djdev203.zip.  It can
untar and unzip .tar.gz archives in one go, without temporary
intermediate .tar files.

As for DJGPP ports of GNU Tar, the latest one is in
v2gnu/tar112ab.zip, dated 03/03/2000, and its size is 185,856 bytes.