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Tar is a backup and archival utility (name comes from "Tape Archive") and as such should not be making any modicifcations to the file while adding it to the archive or while extracting it. Modifying the files goes directly against the intended use for the command. There are other tools for doing text file conversion such as dos2unix and unix2dos. Update: Fixed typos
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