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Re: [Bug-tar] tar -C on windows
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Bug-tar] tar -C on windows |
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Date: |
Sat, 03 May 2008 06:40:11 -0600 |
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According to Sergey Poznyakoff on 5/3/2008 5:19 AM:
| Skabuby <address@hidden> ha escrit:
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|> I’m trying to use tar –C option on a windows machine and I get
the following error:
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|> my tar version is 1.12.msdos cause I haven’t found a newer one.
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| That version is 11 years old! Please upgrade to something newer. The
| recent version of GNU tar is 1.20, released 3 weeks ago.
In particular, cygwin.com provides tar 1.20 precompiled for Windows, along
with a lot of other typical unix programs.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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