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Re: .tar.gz
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: .tar.gz
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:23:06 +1000 (EST)
- References: <199707280224.MAA02916@rdirs7.hrl.com.au>
>If you are not using GNU tar then you may have to unzip the file
>before untarring
>
> gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -
Last time I checked (version b17.1), this did not work,
because pipes were opened in text mode, not binary mode.
Instead I had to use
gunzip file.tar.gz
tar xf - file.tar
Has this changed since b17.1?
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