From: timg@climax.polaristel.net (Tim Gerla) Subject: Re: Any opinions of tar and gzip vs. pkzip? also any major problems in tar? 23 Jan 1997 01:41:40 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32e6f356.17315698.cygnus.gnu-win32@climax.polaristel.net> References: <32E583AF.666D@infoscape.com> <32E6559C.7FB762D@wco.com> Reply-To: timg@climax.polaristel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <32E6559C.7FB762D@wco.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:59:56 -0800, you wrote: >I just discovered cygwin32 (or gnu-win32) last week, and tried using >tar. I quickly encountered the problem that it appends to existing files >(as reported here - still waiting for some resolution). I was using it >for the long filename feature, so I could backup from a Linux system, >and restore to a Win95 system. At this time I would suggest getting the >latest version of Pkzip for windows, which supports long file names. >- >For help on using this list, send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > Well, I must say I've sort of sided with ZIP files. When I downloaded all 14 megs of GNU-Win32 stuff, I concatanated all of the XA? files into all.tar.gz, and went ahead and ran GUNZIP. Well, it worked for a minute or two, and then gave me an error message that says that I did not own the file. :p... I did too own it! :) I probably just configured something wrong, but I launched WinZip and it worked fine. This probably is a Un*x type problem, but still.. :) -Tim -- Tyball@irc, -====- Greeter Tim Gerla -- timg@climax.polaristel.net -- http://timg.home.ml.org/ Unsolicitied e-mail is probihited. Copyright (C) 1996 Tim Gerla Caldera sues Micro$oft, buys DR-DOS and Novell DOS 7, will release OpenDOS, the FREE DOS with multitasking, much more! www.caldera.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".