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Re: .tar.gz


Hi Fergus, you wrote:

: >>     gunzip file.tar.gz
: >>     tar xf - file.tar

: >I don't think so.  But using the 'z' option to gnutar works as it
: >always has:
: 
: Yes, but the 'z' option to tar is not portable, so I can't use that. :-(

But g*zip is not portable, either, only *compress is "standard" on unix.
You can just as well install gtar, under that name, too (or link on Linux).


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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