I need to unpack on a Windows 2000 machine some Wikipedia media .tar archives which are compressed with TAR 1.14 (support for long file names and maybe some other features) . It seems, that Pythons tarfile module is able to list far more files inside the archives than WinRAR or 7zip or TotalCommander, but will it unpack all available files (largest archive size 17 GByte)?
If tarfile is build on TAR 1.14 or TAR 1.15 it will be probably ok, so my questions are: What TAR version is built into the tarfile module? Is there a TAR 1.14 or 1.15 port to Windows available in Internet for download (which URL)? Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
