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From: Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 17:20:10 +0000
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Subject: archivers/unzip vs tar -xf
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Since FreeBSD 5.4.0-Release libarchive(3) support to unpack zip files.
Why not to use it to unpack distributives to workdir?

I've downloaded all distros and tried to unpack them all with tar(1)
with no problems. I use FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r222717.

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