From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IZarc problem extracting emacs-24.2.tar.xz Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:40:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83txp6omlw.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361385636 13540 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2013 18:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 20 19:40:58 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U8Eb7-00081H-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:40:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43058 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8Ean-0003tL-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56185) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8EaQ-0003qt-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8EaL-0007Qm-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:41838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U8EaF-0007KI-Ta for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:40:04 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MIJ00G007K07W00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:39:57 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MIJ00GE07UK8510@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:39:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89195 Archived-At: > From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:43:54 +0000 (UTC) > > >djtarnt doesn't support .tar.xz archives. But bsdtar, which is part > >of the libarchive package, does support it (as well as gazillions of > >other formats, most anything you will find out there). It is free > >software and its Windows binaries can be found here: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/libarchive-3.0.3-w32-bin.zip/download > > > > What about gtar? What's that? If you mean GNU Tar, then AFAIK it doesn't support .tar.xz, except if you have a separate xz program installed (which is rare on Windows). The advantage of bsdtar is that it performs all the decompression internally, so no additional programs are needed.