Re: [Bug-tar] gtar with compression

[Joerg Schilling]

"BeefStu BeefStu" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am using GNU tar version 1.05 - AK/SSB on a Windows_NT machine,within  MKS 
> (korn shell) and trying to utilize the -z flag for compression and I get the 
> following error (see below)
>
>
> $  gtar -czvf backup.gtz *.avt
> : MSDOS  can't use compressed or remote archives
>
>
> Is this a bug in gtar? If so, how comes since I am running within a KSH

It's a missing feature.

You may like to use star instead ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/aplha/

Jörg

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