You'll have to use bzip2 -d to decompress the file manually. I had a similar
problem when I ported sort 7.6. Windows can't fork like nix and so there was
no easy way for me to enable compression. There is a proprietary fork for
Windows but I forget who makes it, and also it doesn't really fork, it just
fakes some process stuff and that isn't always good enough. The compile of
sort I put out does not use compression, and I'm guessing Kees did the same
thing here with tar:
tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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I have an installation program that depends on Tar having the -j switch? The
--help from the Tar build in the GnuWin32 archives doesn't list it.
Is it possible an updated tar will be posted?
You'll have to use bzip2 -d to decompress the file manually. I had a similar
problem when I ported sort 7.6. Windows can't fork like nix and so there was
no easy way for me to enable compression. There is a proprietary fork for
Windows but I forget who makes it, and also it doesn't really fork, it just
fakes some process stuff and that isn't always good enough. The compile of
sort I put out does not use compression, and I'm guessing Kees did the same
thing here with tar:
tar: Cannot fork: Function not implemented
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now