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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 12:23:25 -0800
To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
From: "Tim Oneil" <toneil@visigenic.com>
Subject: Re: XFree86
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At 12:19 PM 3/5/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Tim Oneil wrote:
>
>> Yer not supposed to untar *.tgz files, are ya? I mean, I suppose you
>> could, but seems like the pkg_add command would be easier...
>
>Packages are in the .tgz format, but not all .tgz files are packages.

Gotcha. Tnx Ben.

-Tim