> From: John R Pierce > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:20 PM > > On 05/24/11 12:53 PM, Kyle Hamilton wrote: > > I don't think that Solaris's tar hits the bug every time. Do you > > think Oracle (nee Sun) would ship something that failed 100% of the > > time instead of 0.1% of the time? > > bug? no, this is not a bug. > > native posix tar doesn't read gzip files, gzip does. > gnu tar munged gzip into tar to create a hybrid. > > gunzip -c filename.tar.gz | tar xvf - > > or > gunzip filename.tar.gz > tar xvf filename.tar > > works just great on Solaris and any other Unix platform.
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