Re: [avr-chat] Un-tar-ing a file in Windows

[David Kelly]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:48:05AM -0500, TODD BATZLER wrote:

> Saw Brian Dean's post on avrdude and I'm a long way from being able to
> help, but my first step is to figure out how to 'un-tar' a file under
> Windows XP.  I can de-compress it to the base .tar file.  Can someone
> point me in the right direction to get the rest of the way.

Maybe I missed someone else saying this but am surprised at how
difficult all the other replies were making the task.

WinAVR comes with tar and gzip. Just open a command box, cd to your
directory, and "tar -xvzf archivename.tar.gz"

I can't imagine a Windows user being interested in avrdude and not
having already installed WinAVR.  :-)

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