Martin, thank you for your response. I see, that I have to test myself if the tarfile module can do what I need, so I did and I have evidence, that the Python tarfile module is not able to see all the files inside the TAR archives created on Linux with TAR 1.14 . The Python tarfile module stops to go through the TAR archive somewhere already at the beginning, like the other tools I have used, did.
I have no understanding what Cygwin, MinGW (do I put MinGW in the right context?) are and do, but I gave Cygwin a try and installed it selecting also the tar package version 1.15 for installation. I tried to run the tar.exe, but in the beginning it was not able to do anything for me. I haven't given up and after hours of trying to find the reason for this I found that: the tar.exe seems to have no access to any files not inside the [%SystemDrive%\Cygwin\usr] directory on my system drive e: , where Cygwin is installed. Is there a way to go around this, because I have to uncompress a 17 GByte file and my system drive has only 3 GByte of free storage space. I have in mind, that it could have something to do with the mount command, but this is all I can remember. I work in a Windows command shell (DOS-box) and mount says: j: on /cygdrive/j , but I don't know how to write the entire path "j:\o\archives\images\dump.tar", so that the file can be found by tar.exe and unpacked to "i:\images" . tar.exe --extract --directory=tmp -f j:/o/archives/images/dump.tar results in: /usr/bin/tar: j\:/o/archives/images/dump.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output error telling tar.exe --extract --directory=tmp -f /cygdrive/j/o/archives/images/dump.tar doesn't work either. Claudio "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Claudio Grondi wrote: > > What TAR version is built into the tarfile module? > > None: the tarfile module is not built on top of > GNU tar. Instead, it is a complete reimplementation. > > > Is there a TAR 1.14 or 1.15 port to Windows > > available in Internet for download (which URL)? > > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ > > Regards, > Martin
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