On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Joerg Schilling < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Amit Kapila <amit.kapil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Note that a specific CLI that works with gtar may not work with other tar > implemenations exccept when this CLI is standard compliant. > > > The important point here is that the tar is created by using standard > > tar format described in link below: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing) > > I believe that you are not talking about "tar" (see e.g. > https://sourceforge.net/p/schillix-on/schillix-on/ci/default/tree/usr/src/cmd/tar/ > for a source of the UNIX original tar implementation) but about gtar when talking > about tar.exe.
I am talking about GNU tar, please see below information: tar (GNU tar) 1.22 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html >. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Note that this software I am using to *untar* the already created tar by some other software. The other software creates tar file using format mentioned in the link I have sent upthread (this software doesn't use tar command, rather it forms the tar file via above format). Now the problem is that when there are symlinks in the tar, extraction (untar) of same doesn't work on Windows (I have tried using WinRAR, GNU tar), if there are no symlinks, then every thing works fine. I wanted to know that is there any tool on Windows which can extract from tar when it contains symlinks. With Regards, Amit Kapila.
