Gail Shaw wrote:

>> 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.

Yeah, I found a program in about 10 seconds too. I just couldn't get it 
to *run*...

>> 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

After going through about three pages of adverts with a "click here to 
start your download" burried within them, I gave up.

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