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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Path: sparky!uunet!casey!gaboon!a3bee2!n1gva!root
- From: root@n1gva (The Nefarious Dr. Sponge)
- Subject: Re: questions! help wanted!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.115910.16129@n1gva>
- Organization: Evil Weather Machines LTD
- References: <xu.725917321@prim.rose.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 11:59:10 GMT
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- xu@prim.rose.utoronto.ca (Jiefeng Xu) writes:
- : Happy New Year!
- : I have two questions. Is it possible to use "talk" or "ntalk" to talk with
- : a guy on remote machine which is not on host list in etc/hosts?
-
- Dunno.
-
- : What's the file with suffix ".tar"? I saw a lot of such file on ftp site but I
- : don't know how to deal with them under unix.
-
- A file with a '.tar' extension is an archive of files created with the 'tar'
- utility. Tar stands for Tape ARchive.
-
- : Thank you for the helps.
- :
- : xu@prim.rose.utoronto.ca
- :
- Fred
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