From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: .tar.gz
28 Jul 1997 21:46:00 -0700
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cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) writes:

>In article <199707280923 DOT TAA12004 AT murlibobo DOT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>,
>Fergus Henderson  <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU> wrote:
>>>    gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -
>>
>>Last time I checked (version b17.1), this did not work,
>>because pipes were opened in text mode, not binary mode.
>>Instead I had to use
>>
>>     gunzip file.tar.gz
>>     tar xf - file.tar
>>
>>Has this changed since b17.1?
>
>I don't think so.  But using the 'z' option to gnutar works as it
>always has:

Yes, but the 'z' option to tar is not portable, so I can't use that. :-(

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