Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp From: design AT netcom DOT com (Chris Waters) Subject: Re: Why not to use 'tar' before packing DJGPP? Message-ID: Organization: Design and Delivery References: <32823D97 DOT 44DD AT sabat DOT tu DOT kielce DOT pl> <01bbce7c$30fbde60$010200c0 AT weiqigao> <563edu$ch5$1 AT ns DOT felk DOT cvut DOT cz> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:01:04 GMT Lines: 12 Sender: design AT netcom14 DOT netcom DOT com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In article <563edu$ch5$1 AT ns DOT felk DOT cvut DOT cz>, Ondrej 'Moon Shade' Sury wrote: >Chris Waters (design AT netcom DOT com) wrote: >> [infozip] unzip zipfile >> [pkzip] pkunzip -d zipfile >> [tar+gzip] gunzip -c tarfile.gz | tar -xf - >> or gunzip tarfile.gz tar -xf tarfile > or tar -xzf tarfile.gz Only for some versions of tar--some will insist on running uncompress or unpack with the `z' switch, others don't even have a `z' switch. Though anyone who can get gzip can probably get GNU tar as well, I admit. :-)