Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <00f801bfe656$655ad210$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ> From: "Tim Prince" To: "Matthew Smith" , References: <20000704222731.10345.qmail@hotmail.com> <396266A3.F2A18E80@cygnus.com> <20000705001223.49031.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000704212147.C3314@cygnus.com> <003401bfe631$74912b00$3c5350d8@guinness> Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 00:55:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 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" To: 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. > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com