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: <39639274.F2116257@carlthompson.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:54:28 -0700 From: Carl Thompson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing References: <20000704222731.10345.qmail@hotmail.com> <396266A3.F2A18E80@cygnus.com> <20000705001223.49031.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000704212147.C3314@cygnus.com> <003401bfe631$74912b00$3c5350d8@guinness> <00f801bfe656$655ad210$0100000a@TIMYX18EWDT6RQ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Prince wrote: > > None of the proprietary versions of tar which I've run across accept > input from a pipe. Stick with gnu tar if possible. All of the proprietary versions of tar I've used take input from a pipe probably for this very reason (and I've used a few). Which ones don't work? Carl Thompson > > 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com