Subj : Re: Looking for tar-Win32
To   : Angus McLeod
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 05:15 pm

  Re: Re: Looking for tar-Win32
  By: Angus McLeod to Digital Man on Mon Sep 05 2005 10:19 am

 >   Re: Re: Looking for tar-Win32
 >   By: Digital Man to Tracker1 on Sun Sep 04 2005 23:39:00
 > 
 >  >  > Digital Man wrote:
 >  >  > > 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?
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Look at: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 >  >  > posted about this in the *nix base a few months ago.. :)
 >  >
 >  > Unfortunately, that version fails both of the 2 requirements I mentioned.
 > 
 > Is there any way to tell if cygwin is needed without trying it?  (I don't
 > have a Windows machine here.) 

It doesn't require cygwin, but it does require some other large run-time
libraries.

 > I found this
 > 
 > 	ftp://ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu/pub/menke/gtar.exe
 > 
 > version of 'gtar', for instance, but can't tell if cygwin is needed or
 > not.  And this
 > 
 > 	http://www.gzip.org/gzip124xN.exe
 > 
 > version of 'gzip' doesn't say anything about cygwin either.

Thanks, I'll play with them.

                                                  digital man

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