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Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
Tim Prince wrote:
>
> None of the proprietary versions of tar which I've run across accept
> input from a pipe. Stick with gnu tar if possible.
All of the proprietary versions of tar I've used take input from a pipe
probably for this very reason (and I've used a few). Which ones don't work?
Carl Thompson
>
> Tim Prince
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Smith" <matts@bluesguitar.org>
> To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 8:31 PM
> Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
>
> > gunzip < filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -
> >
> > That will work with most any version of tar.
> >
> >
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