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Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:47:56 -0500
- CC: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
Hmm,
*All* of the versions of tar that I've used have been capable of
reading from stdin and writing to stdout using the "-f -" option ---
AT&T Unix version 7, CADMUS Unix, Apollo Domain Unix, HP-UX,
LynxOS, SunOS/Solaris, tar on a VaxStation and of course, Gnu,...
Which ones don't?
Doug Wyatt
> None of the proprietary versions of tar which I've run across accept
> input from a pipe. Stick with gnu tar if possible.
>
> 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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