X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46E9C055.8010805@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:57:25 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates References: <46E9A15C.5070608@columbus.rr.com> <20070913222638.GB17952@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <46E9BC73.8090205@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <46E9BC73.8090205@columbus.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Paul McFerrin wrote: > I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 file under > bzip2: > bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 > I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file "bunzip2.exe" > which is corrupt. Can't do > tar -t file... > without getting the corrupt file error. Maybe I just got a corrupt file > but I thought I would check things out before continuing to really mess > things up. > > How can I re-get that one file without setup messing up my current system? bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2? Just use 'setup' in download only mode. Or 'wget'. Or 'curl'. Or... -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/