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From: "Biederman, Steve" <steve_biederman AT mentorg DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:10:10 -0700 
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For a good, concise example and test case, go back to the problem I posted on 7/16, 
titled "tar 1.13.25 runs forever and produces nothing on this test case".

That behavior is seen on a bare Windows machine with no Cygwin installed
but for tar 1.13.25 and cygwin1.dll.  

When I installed a Cygwin build environment in order to debug the problem,
the problem disappeared.  But its easily reproduced on a bare Windows machine.



-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Hall [mailto:cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:54 PM
To: Biederman, Steve
Cc: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
Subject: Re: What is the minimum needed to run gtar?


Biederman, Steve wrote:

> I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin tar on their Windows machines.
> These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just bare Windows machines.
> 
> I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with these, they could run
> Cygwin tar sucessfully.  It appears that that isn't the case: machines without Cygwin 
> installed see different behavior than machines which have it installed.  (Running tar
> on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.)
> 
> What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows machine to get
> Cygwin tar to run reliably?


Dunno.  Perhaps you need to provide some data on what's wrong with the
archives made and some specifics on what you're using (cygcheck output
perhaps?) and an example of the problem.


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Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
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