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From: "Gary R Van Sickle" <tiberius AT braemarinc DOT com>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: tar 'mini'-bug
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 14:00:35 -0500
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For a long time tar has been behaving strangely, and I'm just reporting it
since I can't seem to find anybody else that has.  If I 'tar -xjf' a
snapshot overtop of the current cygwin installation on Why2K, I get this,
what I assume is the expected result since cygwin1.dll is being used by tar
and bash:

$ tar -xjf cygwin-inst-20010807.tar.bz2
tar: usr/bin/cygwin1.dll: Cannot open: File exists
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Now when I do the exact same thing on the universally-hated Windows 'ME',
tar simply hangs and must be killed by a CTRL-C.  '--exclude=cygwin1.dll' of
course makes it work fine.

Just wanted to make this a known issue.  Perhaps someday after I've purged
all memory of the "\n / \r\n / \r / CTRL-Z / no CTRL-Z" fiasco from the
collective memory I'll take a look inside and see what's causing this
difference.

Gary R. Van Sickle
Braemar Inc.
11481 Rupp Dr.
Burnsville, MN 55337


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