Re: Tar: list and extract do not function on my computers.

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, S Eichler wrote:

>    I am having difficulty getting 'TAR' to work.  Trying to list or =
> extract results in the program hanging.  I have tried the following =
> versions/forms on Win98 and WinME machines:
>   a.. tar (GNU tar) 1.12   115KB Cygwin
>   b.. tar (GNU tar) 1.12   107KB GNU relayed thru Object Central

You didn't tell what was the exact command line you passed to Tar, so 
it's hard to help you.

> The version djtar supplied with djgpp does however work, though less =
> problematically the -version and --help switches don't work here.

djtar is not a version of GNU Tar, it's a separate program.  There is
a DJGPP port of GNU Tar 1.12a, available from here:

  ftp:/ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip