Re: [arm-gnu] About Untarring source TAR in Windows

[Mike Kinghan <mikek@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

7zip can do it but needs 2 steps - unzip to tar, then untar.

2010/1/7 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 01:37:36PM +0100, risto.lankinen@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > What sort of an Untar utility is needed to unpack GCC Source TAR within
> Windows XP?  I've tried WinZip (says "Error reading header after processing
> 0 entries.") and Untar.exe 1.14 (says "File not found" when in fact said
> file is located in the current directory).  I've tried renaming the archive
> as *.tar.tar, *.tar, *.tar.gz and *.gz to no avail.  I'm running WinXP in
> VMWare Fusion, and trying to unpack GCC 2009q1-203 .
> >
> > Thanks a lot in advance for any hints!
>
> I know for sure that WinZip can not do it, and that the Cygwin tar /
> bzip2 can.  There's probably also msys versions that work.
>
> The file we ship is a .tar.bz2 file, if I remember correctly; it's
> possible your web browser stripped the .bz2 extension.
>
> --
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> CodeSourcery
>



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