Okay, so after my previous experiment, reported in my previous letter, I then attempted to factor cygwin out of the equation:
I unzipped the zip file using the Windows unzip tool instead of the cygwin unzip tool, checked whether the md5 hashes of the files were the same (they were). Then I used cmd.exe to run darcs.exe. I learned a very strange thing: one folder has a darcs.exe which errors-out in this way, and another folder has a darcs.exe that works *even though the folders are completely identical*. This holds true even if I move each one into place on my PATH. So apparently there is some state in this folder which is invisible to md5sum but which causes this failure. So, I'm completely baffled, and I intend to investigate more, but for now, Salvatore's darcs executable can be made to work for me. Regards, Zooko --- Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem -- http://allmydata.org store your data: $10/month -- http://allmydata.com/?tracking=zsig _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
