Subj : Looking for tar-Win32
To   : Digital Man
From : Deuce
Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 12:47 pm

  Re: Looking for tar-Win32
  By: Digital Man to Deuce on Thu Sep 01 2005 10:29:00

 >  >  > 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.

Uh... I'm not aware of ANY version of tar that does compression... they all
relay on gzip/gunzip and pipes afaik.  I'll see what I use here though.

Hrm.. looks like I use the ones from:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

I usually see it spelt:
gunzip -s filename.tgz | tar -xf -
For decompression and:
tar -xf - * | gzip > filename.tgz
For compression.

Whoops, that should be:
gunzip -c filename.tgz | tar -xf -

Even if a Win32 native tar port existed I assume it would still need
gzip/gunzip in the path.

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