From: alex!@bigfoot.com ("Alex Z.") Subject: Re: B17 possible bug 8 Dec 1996 03:08:30 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961208020846.006aabec.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.hooked.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: garbanzo@mail.hooked.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com >I thought switching to tar from zip would be useful because I thought >it would enable me to create a clean install process. If the way I >did things in beta 17 was a step backward I have no issues with switching >back to something closer to what I did for the last beta. I just >really like the idea of eliminating the common problem of people not having >the perfect unzip program... > >-- >Geoffrey Noer >noer@cygnus.com >- >For help on using this list, send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". I for one prefered the multiple zip files to the chunks of the one huge tar file, and couldn't get the xa xb.. to combine correctly. Maybe a one.tar.gz two.tar.gz would be a better idea. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".