The Old Joel on Software Forum: Part 3 (of 5) - Making tarballs on Windows 95/98/ME?

Making tarballs on Windows 95/98/ME?

How does one do it, preferably via the command line?

.-.-.
Monday, January 12, 2004

There is always CygWin, they have a boatload of UNIX utilities for Win32.

http://www.cygwin.com/

Patrik
Monday, January 12, 2004

From their web site:

"The Cygwin DLL works with all non-beta, non "release candidate", ix86 versions of Windows since Windows 95, with the exception of Windows CE. "

Patrik
Monday, January 12, 2004

http://www.weihenstephan.de/~syring/win32/UnxUtils.html

Native windows ports of lots of the Unix utilities, not requiring cygwin. It includes a standard unix style Tar program.

Neil Mitchell
Monday, January 12, 2004

I second the GNU utilities for windows. The port for zsh.exe is quite nice.

Be sure however to not use the Windows based installer, the utilities in that distribution appear to not be up to date, and there are some interesting bugs that were fixed since then.

SG
Monday, January 12, 2004