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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:58:38 -0400
To: "Sukhwinder Singh" <ssruprai AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Setup causes illegal operation on Win 95
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At 04:40 AM 5/8/2002, Sukhwinder Singh wrote:
>So, I tried to manually download packages. I read a message in this mailing
>list where required packages list was given. Then I downloaded those
>packages and extracted them, first using bzip2.exe and then using WinZip to
>extract .tar files, to d:/c/cygwin directory. WinZip is a very good tool and
>extracts the packages using same directory structure as used by package. I
>think there is no problem with WinZip.


Sorry, no, you thought wrong.  Thinking about it again, you might have
noticed on the Cygwin main page a reference to "read about additional 
download options".  This would get you to http://www.cygwin.com/download.html
which clearly states:

Note that you may be tempted to unpack the .tar.gz files with some Windows program like WinZip. This will not work reliably. Cygwin's tar files are not fully understood by WinZip. Attempting to use WinZip to unpack a distribution will result in a damaged Cygwin installation.

This reference is actually slightly dated because it refers to the packages
in .tar.gz format, which we consciously switched away from to discourage the
use of WinZip (among other reasons).  You'd find similar (though harsher) 
comments in the email archives.

So you have a broken Cygwin installation.  Your best bet is going to be to
start over.


Larry Hall                              lhall AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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