Terry, One note about Cygwin. You don't need to install a lot to get the functionality you need. There are some very fundamental pieces you will need, and then you can just throw on top of that tar and gzip and bzip2 (if you want to do compressed tarballs), as well as the libraries that support those bits, and you're done. But, if you're like me, you'll come to like the convenience of having things like sed, grep, ssh, etc. on your desktop as well. I even run sshd on my Windows 2000 systems so that I can sign into them remotely. No GUI, but then I don't care much about that.
You'll need to adjust your PATH environment variable to include the \path\to\cygwin\bin, but that's about it, really. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Terry Spaulding Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Looking for a windows product to create Linux tar files .... It looks like cygwin maybe it. My only real requirement is to be able to set the file permissions and group settings on these files before the tar. Thanks to all those that responded......... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - David wrote: On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 11:33, Terry Spaulding wrote: > I am looking for a windows based product that will take a group of windows > files (html, gif, sss, ear) and create a tar file Cygwin comes to mind. http://www.cygwin.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Regards, Terry L. Spaulding IBM Global Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]
