Sorry, my mail system went down over the weekend. I'll have to check the archives to regain the thread of conversation. Version 1.19 is the current version of tar, and sourcecode is available from GNU.
-dP -----Original Message----- From: Leonard Sitongia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:29 AM To: Petcher, Daniel Cc: bug-tar@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Problems restoring from multi-volume DLT tape archi ve Petcher, Daniel wrote: > What version of tar is your Cygwin including? > $ tar --version > Thank you for your reply. $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.19 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. BTW, on Linux, it is $ tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 -- ==Leonard E. Sitongia High Altitude Observatory National Center for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (303)497-2454 fax: (303)497-1589