> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Larry Hall
> Biederman, Steve wrote: > > > I want to allow the users I support to be able to run Cygwin > tar on their Windows machines. > > These machines have not had any Cygwin installed; they're just > bare Windows machines. > > > > I provided them tar.exe and cygwin1.dll and assumed that with > these, they could run > > Cygwin tar sucessfully. It appears that that isn't the case: > machines without Cygwin > > installed see different behavior than machines which have it > installed. (Running tar > > on machines without Cygwin installed creates incorrect tar archives.) > > > > What is the minimum I need to provide to a non-Cygwin Windows > machine to get > > Cygwin tar to run reliably? > > > Dunno. Perhaps you need to provide some data on what's wrong with the > archives made and some specifics on what you're using (cygcheck output > perhaps?) and an example of the problem. A work-around might be to use Winrar - it seems to grok tar/gz files very well. I'd say that RAR is a good replacement for Winzip. The culprit is: "40 days trial version" @ http://www.rarlab.com /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems - 59?14'N, 17?12'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/
