Re: [avr-chat] Un-tar-ing a file in Windows

[E. Weddington]

TODD BATZLER wrote:

> Saw Brian Dean's post on avrdude and I'm a long way from being able to
> help, but my 
> first step is to figure out how to 'un-tar' a file under Windows XP.  I
> can de-compress
> it to the base .tar file.  Can someone point me in the right direction
> to get the rest
> of the way.
>
> Much appreciated.
>  
Do NOT use WinZip as it has been known to corrupt tar files in the past.

Realize, that avrdude was originally created for FreeBSD (Unix). To 
build it for Windows requires a POSIX layer on top of Windows: Cygwin
http://www.cygwin.com/
You can use the (command line) programs that you can download with 
Cygwin to untar the file. This is generally the preferred method.

Eric