skip c. writes:
>
> Alright, I re-installed Cygwin, and now have access to command prompt.
> Section 2.3 of the get started guide says to download Simgear-X.X.X.tar.gz.
> to usr/local/source and then change to that directory and unpack SimGear
> using "tar xvfz SimGear-X.X.X.tar.gz".  I tried this using command prompt
> but I got an error message:
> tar <child>: SimGear-0.3.3.tar.gz.: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar <child>: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar:  Child returned status 2

Skip

This looks ike a typo in the manual,  try  
'tar xvzf SimGear-X.X.X.tar.gz'
< without the quotes >

the archive name has to immediately follow the 'f' option

HTH

Norman

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