I also realized that the mcopy from mtools could be used to copy to stdout, and that it, in any case, would not stop for a ^Z, so I tried it, but it had the same problme. Here's the output (which stops extracting at about 1.2gb):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mcopy c:/linux/home.tgz - | tar -ztvf - > home.idx file read: Success gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now ________________________________________________________________________ ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.