tar problems in cygwin

Sun Feb 28 23:02:00 GMT 1999

Hi Eric,
>Am I using tar incorrectly here or does tar under cygwin not work the same
>as in bash under Linux?
>>BASH.EXE-2.02$ cd /
>BASH.EXE-2.02$ tar -xvfz /windows/desktop/emacs*
 ^^^^^
 This won't work in Unix, too, because it
 takes z as an argument for f assuming it is a
 filename.
tar -xvzf /windows/desktop/emacs*
would be correct.
[...]
Bye.
Michael.
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