Tar.exe doing nothing

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 5 12:58:00 GMT 2000


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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