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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:53:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
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On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which
> > was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU DOING???" I
> > think that would cause a tar extraction to print that message to the
> > screen.  Don't know what it would do to setup.exe, though.
>
> probably create c:/cygwin/dev/tty...
>
> Rob

FYI:
$ tar tvf test.tar
drwxrwxrwx SYSTEM/SYSTEM     0 2003-02-14 17:48:16 dev/
-rw-rw-rw- SYSTEM/SYSTEM    27 2003-02-14 17:48:16 dev/tty
$ tar xOf test.tar dev/tty
Hey! What are YOU DOING???
$ cat test.tar | (cd / && tar xvf -)
dev/
dev/tty
Hey! What are YOU DOING???
tar: dev/tty: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
$

As for creating c:\cygwin\dev\tty, I do that anyway - allows
Tab-completion.
	Igor
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