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From: "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email AT nohavenotit DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin-to-DJGPP cross compiler
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:44:06 -0400
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> On Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:03:54 -0400, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote:
>> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>

>> > how do you install an rpm on a windows machine with cygwin?
>>
>> You'd probably have to look for a port of rpm2cpio and cpio.
>
> If the only issue is to unpack the rpm, then bsdtar (part of
> libarchive) can do that.

rpmunpac can extract rpms.

I modified rpmunpac for DJGPP and OpenWatcom some years ago.
I posted it to comp.os.msdos.djgpp and openwatcom.contributors.
Here is a Google Groups link to the c.o.m.d. post:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/O8jQn1GbrmU/3Fr5LQbE2gcJ


Rod Pemberton