----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Trahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I wanted to do a really Simple Thing. I have Forte for Java, and > need bash.exe to use CVS on Windows 98. > > With absolutely no instructions on the Cygwin web site for doing > just that http://www.cygwin.com/download.html > , I had to download the entire Cygwin product, and no matter > what I typed into that setup list, I got everything. It took weeks > of retries, as it never seemed to recover after crashing during > download. This is in the wishlist, you could have tried different mirrors however. > Finally I have something in a bash directory that ends in bz2. As > I expected, there are invalid instructions concerning this > suffix in the "user's manual" on the Cygwin web site. Since this Where? Or do you expect us to read your mind from several thousand kilometres away? > is supposed to be a unixy environment for Windows, one would think > it would unpack with an unzipper familiar to Windows users, wouldn't > one? No one wouldn't, if one understood how limiting the Windows file system is and that Winzip and PKZIP consistently misread what is inside tarballs, including sym and hard links. > Neither PKZIP nor WinZip can unpack this format, and GNU tar, using > the "xf" flags, complains that it is not a valid archive file. Try tar --help and look for bzip2!!!! > So I ask you, exactly what is the user-friendly way to get something > useful out of this bash tar? Use setup.exe, it will do the whole lot in a user friendly way. Then again, you could respond with sarcasm and get bit bucketed. Your call. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
