In order to use the common Perl makefile distribution stuff, I need tar.exe and gzip.exe. I found gzip easily enough, as it has a home site with binaries for many platforms. But searching for "windows tar" on Google (and variations) just brings up pages that says "On windows system, try Winzip" or other alternatives on how to extract stuff from tarballs.

I want a command-line utility that uses all the same switches as the UNIX-inspired core Perl culture. But it should also work with native file names, so cygwin need not apply.

I guess I've never missed it because any GUI-based archive manager handles this format for reading anyway, and Perl stuff normally does its own management via the Archive::Tar module.

—John

In reply to Looking for command-line UNIX-like 'tar' for Windows by John M. Dlugosz

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