[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:49:41 +0200

From: "Duncan Booth" <duncan@rcp.co.uk>

On 17 Apr 2002, Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> wrote:

> Side note for those unfamiliar with this bit of Windows lore: all > versions of Windows claiming POSIX compatibility ship the pax utility, > and thus can read and write tar files. Not only that, but if you copy/rename the Windows pax.exe program to tar.exe or cpio.exe it changes its command line options to match. So all recent versions of Windows ship with tar and cpio included (sort of). I didn't know this ;-)

On the other hand, I'd prefer to do the packing/unpacking of zip or tar files in Python. I've been hurt more than once by incompatible versions of zip.exe on windows.

Thomas