Michael A Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:49:16 -0500 David Robinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. The original poster gave no indication that he was trying to extract Cygwin packages. See original post above. (Yes, I am aware that he also posted to cygwin-apps under a different subject. Larry Hall properly rerouted the thread and gave the correct answer. I don't subscribe to cygwin-apps. Apparently Michael does.)
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