X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <461D6DBB.1000301@cygwin.com> <20070412004949.GA18865@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20070412153231.GA13212@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Subject: RE: bash: tar: command not found Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:14:30 +0100 Message-ID: <015d01c77d1d$a7f78a90$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12 April 2007 17:10, Cheney, Christian wrote: >>> Did you even try typing /usr/bin/tar at any point? > I thank you all for your help. Tar.exe does not exist in the /bin > directory, or anywhere else under C:\cygwin. Winzip may have created > the /usr/bin folder, but it didn't put anything in it. It gave me an > error. Even when I tried to drag and drop the file onto the desktop, it > said that it couldn't find the file. > I tried this, but to no avail. I guess I'm back to starting from > scratch. Thanks, again. It should suffice just to blow away the bad version of tar-1.16.1-1.tar.bz2 from your local package directory and redownload-and-install using setup.exe. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/