On 05/24/11 12:53 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
I don't think that Solaris's tar hits the bug every time. Do you
think Oracle (nee Sun) would ship something that failed 100% of the
time instead of 0.1% of the time?
bug? no, this is not a bug.
native posix tar doesn't read gzip files, gzip does.
gnu tar munged gzip into tar to create a hybrid.
gunzip -c filename.tar.gz | tar xvf -
or
gunzip filename.tar.gz
tar xvf filename.tar
works just great on Solaris and any other Unix platform.
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john r pierce N 37, W 123
santa cruz ca mid-left coast
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