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From: "Biederman, Steve" <steve_biederman@mentorg.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:04:53 -0700 
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I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their Windows machines.
These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare Windows machines.

I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they could run
Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines without Cygwin 
installed see different behavior than machines which have it installed.  (Running tar
on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)

What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows machine to get
Cygwin tar to run reliably?


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