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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:28:59 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
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In-Reply-To: <017501c06aeb$0efc04b0$945d4fcb@workhorse>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:12:13PM +1300, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM
>Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
>
>
><snip>
>> >That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip
>> >for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's
>> >gone wrong.
>> 
>> I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce
>> files that are unextractable using winzip.
>> 
>> cgf
>> 
>I don't believe winzip understands bzip2.
>.tar.bz2 might work

Hey, good idea!  I've been wanting to adapt setup.exe to use bz2 files.
This is YA reason for doing this.

cgf

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