X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: References: <46E9A15C DOT 5070608 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> <20070913222638 DOT GB17952 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <46E9BC73 DOT 8090205 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> <002401c7f661$4f190990$020aa8c0 AT DFW5RB41> <46E9DB79 DOT 9090603 AT columbus DOT rr DOT com> Subject: RE: Don't like "setup" for ocassional updates Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:06:18 -0500 Message-ID: <000001c7f66b$7813b700$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <46E9DB79.9090603@columbus.rr.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi Paul, The Cygwin list is the appropriate place for followups: > From: Paul McFerrin > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Paul McFerrin > >> > >> I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 > file under > >> bzip2: > >> bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 > >> I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file > "bunzip2.exe" > >> which is corrupt. Can't do > >> tar -t file... > >> > > > > Perhaps it's time to upgrade your Cygwin installation. :-0 > > > Well I did, without the knowledge that setup would do that. > I'm now running version 1.5.24. I'll stay with that. The > last person (Larry > Hall) mentioned using wget or curl but gave no URL's on where > I might even find the files. Maybe I'm blind, but that seems > to be a secret. It's no secret to those of us using setup.exe ;-). There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, "If you lived here, you'd be home by now." Use setup.exe and you can't get fooled again. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/