----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: pax available?
> At 09:16 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Cygwin List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:09 PM > >Subject: Re: pax available? > > Don't feed the spammers. They're fat enough already. > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR> > > >> At 04:34 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote: > >> >What does any of this have to do with pax? The FAQ doesn't mention > >anything > >> >about pax or archiving in general? > >> > >> > >> Again: > >> > >> "What packages should I download? Where are 'make', 'gcc', 'vi', etc?" > >> > >> Missed the point? OK, let's break it down: > >> > >> "What packages should I download?" > >> > >> You asked in what package was "pax". See any similarities? > > > >No > > > >> OK, hopefully > >> something correlates for you here now. Let's move on: > >> > >> "Where are 'make', 'gcc', 'vi', etc?" > > > >Again, what does this have to do with pax? So far you've answered every > >question except the one I asked. Is there some point to all this? > > > >> > >> "etc" is the operative term here. You can substitute "pax". Does the FAQ > >> entry make sense to you now? > > > >No. As previously stated, the FAQ mentions nothing about pax. Thankfully > >there are some on this list server who are more interested in giving > >straight answers than simply trying to argue. Perhaps *you* should read the > >FAQ and tell us all where pax is mentioned at all. > > > Actually, I wasn't arguing. I was asking a question. I got my answer and > there's clearly no way the FAQ could help you. There's no chance that we > could list every possible package someone might look for there and without > doing that, folks like you are still going to come to the list with questions > like yours. :-( My point was that you can find out if *any* utility is > available in a Cygwin package by visiting <http://cygwin.com/packages/>. > In your case, that would have told you that there isn't a Cygwin package > with pax, which isn't what you were looking for but would have at least > given you that information. In general, this is where to go to find the > answer to "Where is <foo>?" where <foo> is the utility of interest. My apologies for misinerpreting your message. I guess it's one of the problems with email. You lose all of the non-verbal aspects of communication. Chuck BTW How to I get that gmane.org NNTP server to accept posts? Everything I post to the NG goes into oblivion. If I post from email however it works fine. I'd much rather read the threads on a newsreader than in email. -- 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/
