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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:11:04 -0400
To: cygwin users <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup, Cygwin or tar problem
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In-Reply-To: <20000914230512.23321.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:05:12PM -0700

On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 04:05:12PM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>There's been enough chatter on the Mailing list about setup not working I know,
>and this isn't going to help much other than to give another me too, sorry;
>but, I want to voice a complaint.
>
>Since setup uses tar and Cygwin I like to say that I believe tar, it could
>actually be Cygwin (although, I don't think so), doesn't deal with overwriting
>files properly.  I have no proof of this except that my Cygwin became totally
>useless after installing overtop of my existing system.
>
>I've installed with the same files as were downloaded previously and now I have
>things working again.  The fact that Cygwin works with a fresh install and that
>overwriting caused problems leads me to believe we've a bug in tar or possibly
>even gzip.  However, it could also be Cygwin.

Just to add a counterpoint, I've reinstalled everything recently to check out
the assertion that setup.exe doesn't work with samba drives and my installation
is still humming along nicely.

cgf

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