From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: Re: WinZip [Re: Egcs 1.1 having trouble with 'typename'?] 25 Sep 1998 03:45:09 -0700 Message-ID: <9809250055.AA04069.cygnus.gnu-win32@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu> References: <360ADF95 DOT 1C0A63FE AT erols DOT com> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com "Matthew O. Persico" writes: > Any version of WinZip 6.3 or greater definitely supports tar.gz out of > the box. I pull stuff off the net all the time and have unpacked many a > cygnus-bound tar.gz with this program. If this program doesn't work on a > tar.gz, the tar.gz is corrupt. If it does not work on many tar.gz from > many sources, then the user probably diddle with the configureation. Evidently this thread is one of those that refuse to die. Sigh. To reiterate my point, I don't *care* what people use to install packages I distribute; if you install using the method outlined in the INSTALL file, I'll support it and answer problem reports; if you choose to use some other tool not distributed as part of the cygwin32 user tools, you're on your own. > Again, WinZip 6.3 OUT OF THE BOX, no configuration changes at all - no > problem in my experience. Well, others *have* had problems, and I've responded to quite a few. I don't know what the problem is (dealing with hard links, text mode convertion, whatever it may be). Dealing with such non-problems takes time away from important things that I could be spending my free time on. Regards, Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".