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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:43:32 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin online availabilty
Message-ID: <20010111134332.B4141@cobold.vinschen.de>
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In-Reply-To: <C2D7D58DBFE9D111B0480060086E963502E4D422@mail.gft.de>; from Joerg.Schaible@gft.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Schaible, Joerg wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> see Corinna's statements. At least you can use setup to download the latest
> version from the web. When setup is finished you may create your "full.exe"
> by yourself using WinZip.

NO!!!

Don't use WinZip to create a full archive from the Cygwin tree.
WinZip doesn't preserve the system bit which flags symlinks.
WinZip doesn't preserve empty directories (/tmp for example).

What you _can_ do is create a WinZip archive of the installation
directory (which contains the `latest' and `contrib' directories)
and after unpacking the archive start `setup.exe'.

Corinna

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