On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:08:15PM -0800, Rick Rankin wrote: >> I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which >> was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU DOING???" I >> think that would cause a tar extraction to print that message to the >> screen. Don't know what it would do to setup.exe, though. > >I think I'm confused. If you do this, then every time we run tar we'd see "Hey! >What are YOU DOING???" unless we removed /dev/tty? If so, it seems to me like >that would be annoying and it would be a pain to have remember to go remove >/dev/tty after every time we run setup to *avoid* that message.
Um, no. You'd get the message every time you extracted one of cygwin's package files using normal tar. If you read what I wrote again, you'll see that I was talking about changing the archive as in the tar file, not tar itself. Actually, just creating a file named 'con' would probably be easier. cgf -- 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/
