Hi!

> Does anyone use any particular incarnation of tar and gzip under xp, in a cmd 

These need some (included) dll's:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/

These are standalone executables:

    http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

-- Diego.
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