Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <20001030221054.24462.qmail@web109.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:10:54 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: vivian hunt To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Cc: vivianhunt85@hotmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:31:15PM +0000, Vivian Hunt wrote: > >Dear sir/madam > > I recently downloaded cygwin from your site. I have several files = > >with the extension .tar and these are > >opened in winzip, which won't open them for me. Can you tell me which = > >software does please. > > > > e-mail: vivianhunt85@hotmail.com > > Go to the cygwin web site at: http://www.cygwin.com/ and click > on the "Install Cygwin Now" link. That will download a program that is > used to install Cygwin. > > You are aware that Cygwin emulates the UNIX environment, right? .tar > and .tar.gz files are common in this environment (they are files created > with the 'tar' utility) so I'm just double checking. > Chris forgot to mention that the Cygwin tarballs should not be extracted using WinZip. Unexpected and unpredictable results will occur. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Messenger - Talk while you surf! It's FREE. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com