Tar.exe doing nothing

Doug Wyatt dwyatt@sunflower.com
Wed Jul 5 01:48:00 GMT 2000


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@bluesguitar.org>
> To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.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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