Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000919135514.4058.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: WinZip [WAS: Re: mount points and inetd] To: Chris Abbey , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Chris Abbey wrote: > > (actually I'm in favor of symlinks for the /usr stuff so > that it doesn't show up as folders in windows explorer and > non-cygwin tools (like winzip) won't try to write stuff > out there; either that or touch empty files in their place > instead of creating directories.) > To make things totally clear, WinZip, or any other non-Cygwin utility, is *not* to be used to unpack tarballs into the Cygwin directory tree. AFAIK, what WinZip would do with the Cygwin symlinks is delete them and create \usr\bin and \usr\lib anyway. Cygwin supplies it's own version of tar, gzip, bzip2, etc. that must be used to unpack tarballs and compressed files. Any other method cannot be supported by this list or the Cygwin developers. Cheers, ===== --- --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com