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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:55:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: WinZip [WAS: Re: mount points and inetd]
To: Chris Abbey <cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Chris Abbey <cabbey AT bresnanlink DOT net> 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,

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