Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/22/03:26:33
--- Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com> wrote:
> Jim,
>
> At 15:51 2002-07-21, Jim Balcom wrote:
> >On a Windows 95 machine - quite standard, I installed Cygwin from the
> >internet.
> >It didn't seem to be complete, so the next morning I did another
> install
> >from another mirror.
> >
> >In both cases, for example, I am told that Midnight Commander is
> included
> >in the initial installation. It did not seem to install in either
> >installation. Nor, using MC for windows, can I find it on the hard
> drive.
> >
> >I went back to download and install Joe. I downloaded it, but Cygwin
> can't
> >find anyway to unzip it (bzip).
> >
> >...
>
>
> The command for unzipping and zipping BZip2 archives is "bunzip2" and
> "bzip2" (resp.).
Sigh, even I make this mistake now and then. I've symlinked bzip2->bzip
and bunzip2->bunzip on my machine. Perhaps this symlink should exist in
the packaged bzip2? I mean it isn't like anyone is going to have the
original bzip installed at this point...
> I install (and update) everything from the Cygwin net release, and
> Midnight
> Commander is present in /bin (a.k.a. /usr/bin) with the name "mc." It's
> a
> little too "old school" for my taste, but hey, de gustibus...
>
>
non disputantum est...
Cheers,
Nicholas
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