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From: "Ian Zimmerman" <itz AT lbin DOT com>
To: "Scott Smith" <ssmith AT magnet DOT fsu DOT edu>, <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
        "Larry Hall" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: texinfo install
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:39:15 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
To: Scott Smith <ssmith AT magnet DOT fsu DOT edu>; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
<cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: texinfo install


>Good point and one which Mumit has made in the past.  In general, if you
>expect to be able to build these source distributions from a tar ball,
>DON'T USE WINZIP TO UNPACK THEM!  If you insist on doing so, you do so at
>your own risk!  Its a painful lesson to learn when you learn it
yourself!:-)
>

But WHY?  Sorry, I understand that I'm taking your time to ask a
low-priority problem, but I can never be satisfied with answers of the type
"just do this, it works".  What is it that WinZip screws up?  Is it the
CR/LF conversion?  I turned that off.
--
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324
San Francisco, California 94107





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