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Re: tar.bz2
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <aj9035 at wayne dot edu>, David Robinow <Robinows at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:15:17 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: tar.bz2
- References: <02638754.772D80AE.00822747@netscape.net>
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:49:16 -0500 David Robinow <Robinows@netscape.net> wrote:
> DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <aj9035@wayne.edu> wrote:
> > could someone please tell me how to extract from a tar.bz2
> >format ?
> bzip2 --help
> tar --help
> info bzip2
> info tar
The problem with all those is that they bypass setup.exe which could
result in a corrupted installation and many more problems.
They would be appropriate if the original requester wasn't trying to
extract Cygwin packages.
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