"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> As in, the Tape ARchiver.
>
> I was experimenting with Haskell's packaging system yesterday, when I
> discovered that when you ask it to build a package file, it actually
> expects to find an executable called "TAR.EXE" in the current search
> path. Obviously, no such thing exists. This is Windoze, not Unix.

> Then another fanboy yelled at me that it's "easy" to find a Win32 port
> of Tar. Sure, it's so "easy" in fact that I wasted an entire afternoon
> trying to do this and ultimately failed.

??? The following link took about 10 sec to find.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm

I'll admit, I haven't tried to download and run it.

> Specifically, I found a TAR.EXE, but it instantly crashes because it
> can't find "cygwin.dll". And, almost unbelievably, I can't find anywhere
> on the face of the Internet where I can download this file - including
> the Cygwin website!

Maybe here?
http://www.nodevice.com/dll/cygwin_dll/item4683.html

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