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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:10:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: vivian hunt
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--- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:31:15PM +0000, Vivian Hunt wrote:
> >Dear sir/madam
> >   I recently downloaded cygwin from your site. I have several files =
> >with the extension .tar and these are
> >opened in winzip, which won't open them for me. Can you tell me which =
> >software does please.
> >
> >           e-mail:    vivianhunt85 AT hotmail DOT com
> 
> Go to the cygwin web site at: http://www.cygwin.com/ and click
> on the "Install Cygwin Now" link.  That will download a program that is
> used to install Cygwin.
> 
> You are aware that Cygwin emulates the UNIX environment, right?  .tar
> and .tar.gz files are common in this environment (they are files created
> with the 'tar' utility) so I'm just double checking.
> 

Chris forgot to mention that the Cygwin tarballs should not be extracted using
WinZip.  Unexpected and unpredictable results will occur.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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