"-z" option breaks archiving+compression process

[Beaker (aka Jeff W)]

Greetings,
I think this is a bug in tar-1.12.msdos.exe , though I've not tried to 
use tar or gzip until recently on Windows.

Problem: 'tar -czf tarball.tgz *' processes the files in the current 
directory but breaks when it tries to "filter through gzip" via the "-z" 
option. 'tar -cf tarball.tar' runs fine as does gzip.exe. Both gzip & 
tar reside in c:\windows\ .

Platform: Windows 2000 Pro + service pack 2

Pertinent GNU utilities: gzip.exe / gzip386.exe , tar-1.12.msdos.exe

Specifics of error:

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Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>cd public\pics

C:\>cd public\pics tar --version
C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYStar (GNU tar) 1.12

Copyright (C) 1988, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

C:\>cd public\pics gzip -V
gzip 1.2.4 Win32 (02 Dec 97)
Compilation options:
FINDFILE SYS_UTIME STDC_HEADERS NO_CHOWN PROTO

C:\public\pics\>tar -czvf trail.tgz *
DSC00230.JPG
DSC00231.JPG
DSC00232.JPG
DSC00233.JPG
DSC00234.JPG
DSC00235.JPG
DSC00236.JPG
DSC00237.JPG
DSC00238.JPG
DSC00239.JPG
tar: Cannot exec gzip.exe: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

C:\public\pics>dir trail.tgz
11/18/2002  11:02a                   0 trail.tgz

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