detar, extar, and others for dos are available at:
http://oak.oakland.edu/simcgi-bin/dosfind.cgi?tar
You can also search for Windows apps at Oak if you like.
Jose R. Valverde (txomsy at cnb.uam.es) wrote:
: In article <01bbe1ac$2be93970$f308b6cc at monahan>,
: "John Monahan" <monahan at dnai.com> writes:
: > Could somebody please point me to where I could download a PC/Windows95
: > compatible program to read a UNIX
: > .tar compressed file and convert it to simple ASCII.
: >
: I submitted (many years ago) a DETAR program for MS-DOS to the EMBL
: software archives. It had the advantage that it also corrected CR/LF
: on the fly.
: Dunno if it will still be around, but if it is, it should be in
: ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/software/dos
: I don't have any old copy around any longer (broke free from M$-world
: long ago, and happy I am, man).
: jr
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