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From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com>
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:47:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
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CC: "Tim Prince" <tprince AT computer DOT org>
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Hmm,

*All* of the versions of tar that I've used have been capable of
reading from stdin and writing to stdout using the "-f  -" option   ---
AT&T Unix version 7, CADMUS Unix, Apollo Domain Unix, HP-UX,
LynxOS, SunOS/Solaris, tar on a VaxStation and of course, Gnu,...

Which ones don't?

Doug Wyatt


> 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" <matts AT bluesguitar DOT org>
> To: <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
> 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.
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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