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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:24:59 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Unzipping cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <20000801110938.20827.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:09:38AM -0700

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 04:09:38AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Paul J Nagy <machine AT pcola DOT gulf DOT net> wrote:
>> I was not able to unzip  with WinZip any of the sdcc or cygwin files:
>>    sdccdoc_tar.tar
>>   sdcc-2_2_0a_tar.tar
>>   sdcc-2_2_0a_winbin-tar.tar
>>   cygwin-1_1_3-1_tar.tar
>>   cygwin-1_1_3-1-src_tar.tar
>> 
>
>You've used Netscape to download the files and Netscape is notorious
>for mangling the file names.  The fix, delete these files and download
>again using ftp.

Also, you are almost guaranteed to be disappointed if you use Winzip to extract
your files.  Winzip will not preserve anything like the symbolic links in the
files and your directory structure will not be set up the way our "setup.exe"
program does things.

cgf

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