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docs: add additional tar invocation in case -a isn't available
Closes #164.
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(The ``-a`` argument tells tar to guess the compression format by
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the file extension.)
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If your ``tar`` doesn't support ``-a`` (e.g. the default macOS ``tar``),
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try::
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$ tar xvf path/to/distribution.tar.zstd
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If you do not have ``tar``, you can install and use the ``zstd``
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tool (typically available via a ``zstd`` or ``zstandard`` system
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package)::

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