Subj : Looking for tar-Win32
To   : Deuce
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 10:29 am

  Re: Looking for tar-Win32
  By: Deuce to Digital Man on Thu Sep 01 2005 01:29 am

 >   Re: Looking for tar-Win32
 >   By: Digital Man to All on Wed Aug 31 2005 14:49:00
 > 
 >  > Yes, I found a few, but I'm specifically looking for a version that:
 >  > 1. Supports gzipping/ungzipping of tar archives
 >  > 2. Doesn't rely on cygwin or any other huge run-time libraries or
 >  > Unix-emulation environments.
 >  >
 >  > Does such a thing exist?
 > 
 > Yeah, I use such a thing at work regularily...
 > 
 > http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/gzip/
 > 
 > There's a place to get it (.gov even!)

Thanks, but unfortunately, it fails requirement number 1:
"WIN32GNU tar can't use compressed or remote archives"

It does rely on a run-time library (win32gnu.dll), but I managed to find a
(only) 107K version of it.

                                                  digital man

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