Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:55:49 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Locating bzip2 package Message-ID: <20020130025549.GD32762@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <858788618A93D111B45900805F85267A047D64AA AT caexmta3 DOT amd DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <858788618A93D111B45900805F85267A047D64AA@caexmta3.amd.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 06:35:37PM -0800, marc DOT miller AT amd DOT com wrote: >Based on my web searches, I don't think I'm the only one thrown by this >so I think it's appropriate I document it. > >The defacto standard answer to people trying to get bzip2 installed in >a Cygwin environment seems to be, "it *is* there, did you install it?" >I think the confusion is not that bzip2 isn't part of the default >install, but rather it's not located where you expect. There's a nice >"Archive" section in Cygwin Setup which owns the unzip and zip >utilities. Most people would expect to find bzip2 with those packages. >However, people looking for bzip2 will find it's located in "Utils" >instead. > >I think it would make more sense to have it up there with the other >archive utilities, but eh; what do I know? :-P bzip2 is not an archiving tool. It compresses files. It does not archive them. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/