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Re: Unzipping cygwin


Certainly, you can do manually what setup does automatically, but then
setup will not have a record of which version is installed.

Tim Prince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list@hotmail.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:40 AM
Subject: Re: Unzipping cygwin


> > Also, you are almost guaranteed to be disappointed if you use Winzip
to extract
> > your files.  Winzip will not preserve anything like the symbolic
links in the
> > files and your directory structure will not be set up the way our
"setup.exe"
> > program does things.
>
> Is it ok to use the GNU tar program supplied with Cygwin?
>
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