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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:45:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] NetInstaller leaves bad dates
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On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:17:37AM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>Michael A Chase wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>>Win98se (4.10.2222), Fat32fs with multiple PMagic partitions
>>>Cygwin Netinstall 2.125.2.10
>>>Xemacs Netinstall 1.2.2.1.2.7 ( ! Wow ! )
>>>Lillypond Netinstall 2.96.jcn1
>>>
>>>With that much variation, I suspect the common point-of-failure may be
>>>Cygwin TAR 1.13.19-1
>>
>>Setup.exe (Cygwin's install tool) has its own methods for extracting from
>>compressed tar files; it does not use tar, gunzip, or bunzip2.
>>
>>The problem is more likely a system configuration issue.
>>
>Does it not, however, use "library" code snatched from those 
>applications?  I'd hate to think Chris and the others re-invented all 
>those wheels.

It does not use "library" code from tar.

cgf

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