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From: "Demmer, Thomas" <TDemmer AT krafteurope DOT com>
To: "'derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net'" <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net>
Cc: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Missing libc documentation
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 13:56:18 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Derbyshire [SMTP:derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net]
> Sent:	Friday, July 26, 2002 11:50 AM
> To:	Demmer, Thomas
> Subject:	RE: Missing libc documentation
> 
> On 26 Jul 2002 at 11:21, Demmer, Thomas wrote:
> 
> > Well, setup says during an upgrade that it first
> > uninstalls the old package, and then installs the new one. 
> 
> So it shouldn't uninstall something without installing a newer 
> version. (Or the same, for a reinstall.)
> And the newer version should contain everything the older version had 
> that wasn't obsolete.
> Is the libc documentation obsolete? I doubt it. If it's not, what am 
> I missing here? If everything's working as it's supposed to I don't 
> feel I should be in this situation.
> 
> [Snip instructions.]
> $ tar -vjxf 
> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release
> /cygwin/cygwin-1.3.10-1.tar.bz2 /usr/info
> tar: /usr/info: Not found in archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> OK, next suggestion please... *sigh*
	[Demmer, Thomas]  
	Omit the leading slash before usr. If I had it in my previous mail,
my fault, sorry.

	What you are missing is that omitting the files was probably
	*NOT INTENDED*

	Ciao
	Tom

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