From:	syring AT pollux DOT edv DOT agrar DOT tu-muenchen DOT de (Karl Martin Syring)
Subject:	RE: B17
8 Dec 1996 03:11:18 -0800 :
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Hi Geoff!
This works really nice now, much better then in B16. But one thing =
drives me crazy: I just try to install ncurses and I have to insert all =
those nasty ".exe" suffixes manually. Why can't whe get rid of these =
useless appendixes (sp?). I know, this has beaten to death, but what =
about some global switch. Something like *use* suffixes on Win95 and =
*don't* use them on NT?

Regards
Karl


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From: 	Geoffrey Noer
Sent: 	Sonntag, 8. Dezember 1996 05:21
To: 	Keith Gary Boyce
Cc: 	noer AT cygnus DOT com; gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: 	Re: B17 possible bug

Keith Gary Boyce wrote:
>=20
> WHen attempting to run command in bash
> gunzip -d < all.tar.gz|tar -tvf -
> or
> gunzip -d -c all.tar.gz |tar -tvf -
>=20
> both commands get error

Sadly, there are still plenty of unresolved text vs. binary issues
some of which are *very* tricky.  In this case, I think it is likely =
that
the pipe is corrupting the result of the gunzip.

I have tested the install method as described in the readme doc
and it worked for me under Windows 95 (copy /b'ing the split files,
gunzipping the result, and then untarring the resulting archive).  If =
you
change things slightly (using cat.exe instead of copy or trying to
do more than one step at a time), you may run into trouble.

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...

--=20
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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