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in thread Looking for command-line UNIX-like 'tar' for Windows

Wasn't your original question about using it with Perl's generated makefiles? Perl's build system should not have a problem with it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Looking for command-line UNIX-like 'tar' for Windows
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2003 at 21:52 UTC
    Because it only uses relative paths and consistantly uses forward-slashes for all names?

    Hmm, how does that port to a Mac? I figured most code would look up the correct separator character and/or use File::Spec to do the work.