>> Personally, I thought Tar was completely obsolete now?
> 
>   Why would it be obsolete?

Because it was invented several decades before I was even born?

Oh, mind you, that same statement applies to Unix, and that's still with 
us...

> What would you suggest as an alternative?

Actually, if you stop and think about this, there aren't any really good 
alternatives that are actually widely supported.

>   I really can't understand why precisely cygwin is used to port unix
> programs to Windows. Cygwin binaries rely on a bunch of dlls nobody has.
> 
>   mingw, on the other hand, is a cross-compiler which creates native
> Windows binaries (both command-line and GUI'd) which do not require any
> dll which a basic standard Windows installation wouldn't have.

I have no idea.

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