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From: "Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 02:12:33 +0200
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Well, silly me :-)

Now, 2 more questions about that:

-What the hell is the purpuse of that feature?
-Is there an easy program to unzip the contents of a .tar.gz file without first
using gzip.exe and then tar.exe? Or a good way to set up an alias/script to do
this?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <vinschen AT cygnus DOT com>
To: "Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: "Cygwin list" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing


> Jonas Jensen wrote:
> >
> > When I use the tar.exe file to try and extract something, it just sits there,
like
> > it's a word processor... it lets me type on the console, but it doesn't react
on
> > any input, like when you start sort.exe in DOS... except that when I start a
new
> > line, it doesn't move the cursor all the way to the left, it just sits where I
> > left off...
> >
> > I can use "tar --help", but whenever I type "tar -x anyfile.tar", it shows
this
> > weird behavior.
>
> Weird? Why weird? It's doing completely right!
> You should _read_ the output of `tar --help', that might
> give you a clue. ;-)
>
> Corinna
>
> Hint: Search for option '-f'
>
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> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Developer
> Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company
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