Re: GNU Tar on Windows XP

[Mark Blain]

Gadrin <Gadrin@gmail.com> wrote (in part):

> Can you recommend a decent GNU shell ? When I downloaded the
> GNU core utils it came with SH.EXE and I recently downloaded WIN-
> BASH.EXE but I can't find documentation. Apparently it uses 
> different paths and doesn't see the .EXEs that I have in the 
> same folder.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html :
"Win32 implementations of Bash can be found in the CygWin tools, in the 
Msys tools, and in the DJGPP tools..."
(See the page for links & explanation of absolute filename issues.)