Do you really have a Linux distribution installed that does not include tar?
You should check ("which tar") before you do anything else.
If you really don't have tar ... well, I'd go to ftp://metalab.unc.edu and
look in /linux/distributions for the tar package appropriate to whatever
distribution you are running. Or go to the site appropriate to your
dsitribution and get it form there.
But tar is an archiving program; it doesn't do compression. Compression
requires a separate program, with the most common set being gzip and gunzip.
Same advice applies here; check if you already have them, and if you don't,
go to metalab.
There are other compression programs, not as widely used these days as gzip.
One is the pair compress/uncompress. Same advice applies here.
At 08:30 PM 7/4/99 -0500, Richard Salts wrote:
>Where can I get a tar compression-uncompression program so I can unpack
>linux programs?
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