From: rrankin AT primenet DOT com (Rick Rankin) Subject: RE: Mixing Unix and WIN32? 24 Oct 1998 21:01:11 -0700 Message-ID: <000301bdff75$ffc1f640$9a1e01aa.cygnus.gnu-win32@rankin-isdn-ws2.sat.mot.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jari Aalto+list.cyg" , "Cygwin32 mailing list" The problem is symbolic links. Even though WinZip understands gzip compression and tar files, there is no way that is universal to all Windows platforms (95/98/NT) for it to deal with symbolic links. (It's my understanding that NT has soft-link capability, though). If (and only if) the tar file was created on a Windows platform where symlinks are simply a file with specific contents and the system attribute set, then WinZip will properly store/restore symbolic links. I do this all the time. If, however, the tar file is created on a Unix platform and contains symbolic links, then I believe that WinZip just skips them when extracting the tar file. That's my take on it, anyway. Hope it helps. -- Rick Rankin rrankin AT primenet DOT com > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com [mailto:owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com]On > Behalf Of Jari Aalto+list.cyg > Sent: Friday, October 23, 1998 10:25 AM > To: Cygwin32 mailing list > Subject: Re: Mixing Unix and WIN32? > > > |Tue 1998-10-20 Mumit Khan list.cyg > | On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Randy Campbell wrote: > | > | > > | > I'll give those a try. I've seen quite a few links to egcs, > but where do I > | > find > | > binutils 2.9.1? > | > | After installing egcs-1.1, which includes a newer snapshot of > binutils, you > | can overwrite the binutils stuff with the older 2.9.1 distribution (and > | that *will* add some bugs that's been fixed since) from: > | > | ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin32/releases/ > > Isn't the warning about winzip outdated by now when winzip 7.0 > can natively handle tar and gz files? > > 3. INSTALL EGCS-1.1: > > a. If you have the whole file egcs-1.1-cygb19.tar.gz > > % cd $CYGFS > % tar zxvf /tmp/egcs-1.1-cygb19.tar.gz > > !! WARNING: DO NOT USE WINZIP OR SOME SUCH WINDOWS TOOL > TO UNPACK !! > > > jari > - > 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". > - 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".