Re: gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that

Windows tools vary in their support for archive file format, WinZip sometimes has problems with tar.gz, WinRar handles them good (and also handles tar.bz2, gz, bz2, tar, and much more... this seems so much like an ad!)

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Re: Re: gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2003 at 04:24 UTC
WinRar? I'll look for that one. I also found Power Archiver which is no longer freeware. I figured out how to get Winzip to read the file. But my main point is to get tools that are just like what the original Perl folks use. —John	[reply]
Re^3: gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 11, 2003 at 17:00 UTC
You can do that with Cygwin, a heavyweight Unix-in-a-Windows solution including a package managemer and a lot of doodads, or Gnu/Win32, a less involved collection of GNU software ports for Win32 platforms. If you just want a `tar` and `gzip` / `bzip2`, stuff from the latter project is far easier to get going. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]