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Re: [MacPerl] .TAR

At 4:36 -0700 1999.10.22, Nicholas G. Thornton wrote:
>Is there any free way to go abouts un-taring stuff? I saw the MacPerl thing to
>mess around with tars on pudge.net... unfortunately it's tarred. And for
>stuffit to do it costs money my poor college student self can't afford

First, the cpan-mac stuff is not tarred, it is in a .sit.bin archive.  You
can get that.  I am sure you have (or cna get for free) Stuffit Expander to
handle that archive.

The utils that come with it, however, only handle .tar.gz, I think, not
.tar by itself.  This is easily modified to handle straight .tar files.  It
is just a flag passed to the tar routine to turn on handling off the .gz
part.

There are free utilities, too.  See perlmodinstall, the Mac section.

    http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlmodinstall.html

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Chris Nandor          mailto:pudge@pobox.com         http://pudge.net/
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