>>Did you even try typing /usr/bin/tar at any point? >>This means that tar.exe has been unpacked into C:\cygwin\usr\bin. That's >>why setup thinks it's installed. But you can't find it in your $PATH or >>anything, because when cygwin goes to look in /usr/bin (which is where tar.exe >>has been put by winzip), it actually looks in your /bin dir. And doesn't find >>it.
>>In a default cygwin install, there is nothing in Windows equivalent to the >>/usr/bin directory, because cygwin sets up a mount so that /usr/bin points >>to the same place as /bin. I thank you all for your help. Tar.exe does not exist in the /bin directory, or anywhere else under C:\cygwin. Winzip may have created the /usr/bin folder, but it didn't put anything in it. It gave me an error. Even when I tried to drag and drop the file onto the desktop, it said that it couldn't find the file. >>The fix would be to go into your C:\cygwin\usr directory, using a DOS shell >>or windows explorer, and delete the bin dir. Then re-run setup.exe, telling >>it to "install from local directory", just click on ok to everything all the >>way through, and it should reinstall everything that you deleted to the >>correct place. I tried this, but to no avail. I guess I'm back to starting from scratch. Thanks, again. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
