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Re: FW: Problem extracting on Windows 2000 and XP
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: FW: Problem extracting on Windows 2000 and XP |
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Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:19:22 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:29:49 -0700 (PDT)
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> I should warn you that tar 1.12 is quite old now. I am surprised that
> ftp.gnu.org is still distributing a DOS executable for it.
Probably because there are no newer versions of Tar that support
DOS/Windows. Anyone who downloads a .tar.gz file from ftp.gnu.org
needs a working version of Tar to unpack the file (and also a working
port of gzip).