From: "Duncan Booth" <duncan@rcp.co.uk> > On 17 Apr 2002, Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> wrote: > > > Side note for those unfamiliar with this bit of Windows lore: all > > versions of Windows claiming POSIX compatibility ship the pax utility, > > and thus can read and write tar files. > > Not only that, but if you copy/rename the Windows pax.exe program to > tar.exe or cpio.exe it changes its command line options to match. So all > recent versions of Windows ship with tar and cpio included (sort of). > I didn't know this ;-) On the other hand, I'd prefer to do the packing/unpacking of zip or tar files in Python. I've been hurt more than once by incompatible versions of zip.exe on windows. Thomas
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