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>> In order to help the maintainer, would it be possible to know what
>> compression program do you use?
> 
> Hmmm... I'm using some tar and gzip that I downloaded God knows from 
> where sometime about ten years ago. Under MS Windows. For both 
> Config::IniHash and Mail::Sender.
> 
> tar --help reports "This is GNU tar, the tape archiving program." and 
> no version number, gzip -h reports "gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)". (Gosh 
> that's old)

Maybe tar --version could give you more information.

> Is there a version of those two for Windows that would be proved to 
> work well with your system? I don't mind installing new versions of 
> the two executables, but I'd rather install some that will work 
> instead of wasting time on something that doesn't help.

Joey, which one would you recommend?

Otherwise, perhaps getting the latest releases could be enough :)
Then send me a link to a new generated tarball so I can give it a try.

Regards,

-- 
Franck Joncourt
http://debian.org - http://smhteam.info/wiki/

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