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Re: .tar.gz
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU
- Subject: Re: .tar.gz
- From: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 23:12:49 +0200 (METDST)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com, dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
Hi Fergus, you wrote:
: >> gunzip file.tar.gz
: >> tar xf - file.tar
: >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. :-(
But g*zip is not portable, either, only *compress is "standard" on unix.
You can just as well install gtar, under that name, too (or link on Linux).
Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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