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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:11:50 -0400
To: "Ayers, Mike" <Mike_Ayers AT bmc DOT com>, Vivian Hunt <vivianhunt85 AT hotmail DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: RE: vivian hunt
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At 06:38 PM 10/30/00, Ayers, Mike wrote:

>> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall AT rfk DOT com]
>>
>> At 01:31 PM 10/30/2000, 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 AT hotmail DOT com
>>
>>
>> Although using WinZip is highly discouraged for any tarballs
>> downloaded,
>> it should be able to open them without difficulty.  If it
>> cannot, this
>> means that the files you downloaded are corrupted in some
>> way.  You should
>> download them again, making sure you do so in binary mode,
>> and insure that
>> the file name is <package name>.tar (or more likely <package
>> name>.tar.gz).
>> These are best installed by setup.exe but if you want/need to
>> open/install
>> them yourself, you'll want to use tar.exe which comes with
>> Cygwin (yes, I
>> realize this implies a chicken-and-egg syndrome if you don't
>> have Cygwin
>> installed already... that's why setup exists!;-))
>>
>
>        One can get tar.exe as ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe
>and rename it to tar.exe.  Also available is
>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe for your gunzipping
>pleasure.  However, the install script is still the best way to go.
>
>
>/|/|ike


Use of any non-Cygwin aware utilities for accessing Cygwin tarballs is 
highly discouraged and unsupported.  While these utilities should probably
let you view the contents of the tarball, they will not understand Cywgin
symlink and mount points at least.  The proper way to install Cygwin is 
via the setup.exe utility.  Newbie questions to this list with installation
problems using other utilities will receive the reply "Use setup.exe"!;-)

Once Cygwin is installed, it contains both tar.exe and gzip.exe.


Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
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118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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