Tar.exe doing nothing

[Tim Prince]

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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