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Re: .tar.gz
cgf@bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:
>In article <199707280923.TAA12004@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>,
>Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>>> 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:
Yes, but the 'z' option to tar is not portable, so I can't use that. :-(
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