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Re: Local setup fails (even 1.30)


At 09:30 27/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 12:43:29PM +0200, Seidl Friedrich wrote:
>>I have had exactly the same problem and changed the source code line
>>from setup.c 
>>  sprintf (buffer, "tar xvfUz \"%s\"", path);
>>into
>>  sprintf (buffer, "tar.exe xvfUz \"%s\"", path);
>>
>>This solved my problem.
>
>Ok.  I certainly don't understand why this would solve anything but I
>will make an equivalent change to the sources.  It will be in setup.exe
>Revision 1.31.

  Possibly just if there is a tar.bat in the path somewhere !


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