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Re: Tar.exe doing nothing
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 02:14:56PM -0700, Carl Thompson wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>>>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.
>
>So it's not OK to post messages about cross-platform issues of Unix
>utilities included in Cygwin, but it's OK to post this:
Actually, I'm always willing to be lenient with humor. I doubt that
you've ever seen me say "This is off topic" to the rare humorous message
that shows up here.
However, since this concerns you, let me apologize for contributing
something off-topic.
Since I still am unconvinced that some proprietary version of tar has
any merit for a cygwin discussion I would like to drop this discussion.
cgf
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