Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/01/23/01:41:40
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997 09:59:56 -0800, you wrote:
>I just discovered cygwin32 (or gnu-win32) last week, and tried using
>tar. I quickly encountered the problem that it appends to existing files
>(as reported here - still waiting for some resolution). I was using it
>for the long filename feature, so I could backup from a Linux system,
>and restore to a Win95 system. At this time I would suggest getting the
>latest version of Pkzip for windows, which supports long file names.
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Well, I must say I've sort of sided with ZIP files. When I downloaded
all 14 megs of GNU-Win32 stuff, I concatanated all of the XA? files
into all.tar.gz, and went ahead and ran GUNZIP. Well, it worked for a
minute or two, and then gave me an error message that says that I did
not own the file. :p... I did too own it! :) I probably just
configured something wrong, but I launched WinZip and it worked fine.
This probably is a Un*x type problem, but still.. :)
-Tim
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