.tar.gz

[Chris Faylor]

In article < 199707280923.TAA12004@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU >,
Fergus Henderson  <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>>If you are not using GNU tar then you may have to unzip the file
>>before untarring
>>
>>    gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -
>
>Last time I checked (version b17.1), this did not work,
>because pipes were opened in text mode, not binary mode.
>Instead I had to use
>
>     gunzip file.tar.gz
>     tar xf - file.tar
>
>Has this changed since b17.1?

I don't think so.  But using the 'z' option to gnutar works as it
always has:

	tar xzf file.tar.gz

There has been at least one copy of bash floating around which was
compiled with O_BINARY as the default for open.  That would allow the pipe
version above to work.
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