Re: [Bug-tar] gtar with compression

[Doug McLaren]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:53:24PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
| "BeefStu BeefStu" <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > I am using GNU tar version 1.05 - AK/SSB on a Windows_NT...
| > $  gtar -czvf backup.gtz *.avt
| > : MSDOS  can't use compressed or remote archives
| >
| > Is this a bug in gtar?
| 
| It doesn't look like it.  The error message is telling you that MSDOS
| can't use compressed or remote archives.  Windows NT is similar to
| MSDOS in this respect, I would think.

It just sounds like that tar port wasn't very complete ...

| You might try running GNU tar on a Linux kernel; it's a far friendlier
| platform.

Another option would be cygwin, which would make this work and let you
keep running Windows.

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Doug McLaren, address@hidden
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