Franck Joncourt wrote: > [...] > >> In order to help the maintainer, would it be possible to know what > >> compression program do you use? > > > > Hmmm... I'm using some tar and gzip that I downloaded God knows from > > where sometime about ten years ago. Under MS Windows. For both > > Config::IniHash and Mail::Sender. > > > > tar --help reports "This is GNU tar, the tape archiving program." and > > no version number, gzip -h reports "gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)". (Gosh > > that's old) > > Maybe tar --version could give you more information.
No need, all I care about is the gzip version. I'm impressed that you still have that old thing, thanks! Presumably, then, this bug can be fixed by us digging up the source to that old version of gzip and including it into zgz as an alternative compressor. > > Is there a version of those two for Windows that would be proved to > > work well with your system? I don't mind installing new versions of > > the two executables, but I'd rather install some that will work > > instead of wasting time on something that doesn't help. > > Joey, which one would you recommend? I don't want to dictate what tools people use to make .tar.gz files. pristine-tar should ideally handle anything that's thrown at it. > Otherwise, perhaps getting the latest releases could be enough :) Any version of gzip less than 10 years old would probably create an gzip archive pristine-tar can handle, yes. :-) -- see shy jo
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