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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:58:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
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In-Reply-To: <39639274.F2116257@carlthompson.net>; from cet@carlthompson.net on Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:54:28PM -0700

On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:54:28PM -0700, Carl Thompson wrote:
>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?

Please.  Take this up in private email.

I've answered the question.  There is no reason to discuss this further.
The foibles of other non-cygwin versions of tar are not fodder for this
mailing list.

cgf

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