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Subject: Re: Problems installing cygwin-XFree86 on a Dell WIN2K box
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From: Elizabeth Barham <soggytrousers AT yahoo DOT com>
Date: 11 Apr 2002 10:55:41 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Dr. Lawrence Ward Spradley"'s message of "Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:17:28 -0500"
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"Dr. Lawrence Ward Spradley" <lws AT HiWAAY DOT net> writes:

> I also looked through the Xinstall.sh script to try to assess why it
> was stopping. It appears to need a program called extract, which I
> think is part of the XFree86 download.

Yes it is. It worked for me by having extract in the same directory as
the various X files, Xbin.tgz, Xdoc.tgz, etc.

For example, I downloaded the X files into the /tmp directory,
including extract.exe ; it installed very easily. If the extract.exe
you downloaded is compressed (it looks like "extract.exe.gz") then
you'll need to decompress it with the gunzip command. Provided you've
installed the gzip package, this can be done with "gunzip
extract.exe.gz".

> The script also contains comments about linking extract to gnu-tar.

# Link extract to gnu-tar so it can also be used as a regular tar
case "$OsName" in
CYGWIN*)
	rm -f gnu-tar
	ln -s extract.exe gnu-tar
	;;
*)
	rm -f gnu-tar
	ln extract gnu-tar
	;;
esac

This is simply providing a link between exact and gnu-tar - making
gnu-tar a synonym for extract (that is, when you run "gnu-tar" it does
the same thing as running extract - they're the same programs [ note
this is entitled "gnu-tar" ].

Is extract.exe in the same directory as the Xinstall.sh?

Elizabeth

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