On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker at t-online dot de> wrote: You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file.
Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new computers? Also, perhaps the Windows Image Format (WIM) could be used instead, presuming UUIDs would not be an issue if both computers shared identical machine names and accounts. Just curious. Gilbert P. St. Firmin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple