Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:24:59 -0400 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Unzipping cygwin Message-ID: <20000801102459.B16175@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000801110938.20827.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <20000801110938.20827.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:09:38AM -0700 On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:09:38AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Paul J Nagy wrote: >> I was not able to unzip with WinZip any of the sdcc or cygwin files: >> sdccdoc_tar.tar >> sdcc-2_2_0a_tar.tar >> sdcc-2_2_0a_winbin-tar.tar >> cygwin-1_1_3-1_tar.tar >> cygwin-1_1_3-1-src_tar.tar >> > >You've used Netscape to download the files and Netscape is notorious >for mangling the file names. The fix, delete these files and download >again using ftp. Also, you are almost guaranteed to be disappointed if you use Winzip to extract your files. Winzip will not preserve anything like the symbolic links in the files and your directory structure will not be set up the way our "setup.exe" program does things. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com