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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:11:59 -0600
From: Greg Miller <gmiller AT classic-games DOT com>
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Michael Weiser wrote:
> Why? Someone who can't do a tar -xzvf will also be unable to use
> cygwin after install. It's the old thread which shows up here
> regularly and I'm one of those who want tar's or even better rpm's.

Except that the above tar command isn't equivalent to a full
InstallShield executable. Further, many cygwin users just want to run
one or two pieces of UNIX software, not use a full simulation of UNIX.
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