Re: [Bug-tar] tar xf and .Z archive

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Karl Berry <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> When I run tar tf foo.tar.Z or tar xf on the attached .tar.Z archive
> (just an empty file), it says:
> 
> tar (child): compress: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Looks like you don't have compress in your PATH. Do you?

> But using tar tzf or xzf works.  Maybe that's invoking gzip -d?

Yes, tar tzf invokes gzip which is able to read old compress' input.

Regards,
Sergey