Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <01c301bfe6e6$77521d80$64251004@homepc.freedsl.com> Reply-To: "Dave Arnold" From: "Dave Arnold" To: Subject: Re: Tar.exe doing nothing Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:06:48 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 hi, I use tar -xf "filename.tar" and works fine. I notice a lot of the unix utilities have this kind of behavior if you don't give a complete list of arguments because they have a feature of reading input from the standard input which is what allows you to "pipe" output from one program to stdout into another program that's reading from stdin. I thinkn tar allows you to redirect stdoutput from another program directly into a tar archive and that's why you see this behavior. you should try with the -f flag for "filename" and it should work. /dave -----Original Message----- From: Corinna Vinschen To: Jonas Jensen Cc: Cygwin list Date: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 3:35 PM 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' > >-- >Corinna Vinschen >Cygwin Developer >Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com