>From message http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-06/msg00534.html:
> Dave, I think you missed this: > >>sciguy wrote: >>>I am networked to a Linux machine, so I moved the tar file >>>cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 over to the Linux machine, created a dummy >>>cygwin directory to hold the file, and un-tarred it there using this >>>command: >>> >>>% /bin/tar -jxvf cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2 >>> >>>Then I ftp'd the entire un-tarred file and directory structure over the >>>cygwin directory of the affected Windows PC. > >This is why I kept mentioning that the snapshot cygwin DLL wasn't >installed in the right location. I correctly assumed that this step did >not put the cygwin DLL (or any of the cygwin programs) in c:\cygwin\bin. >The cygcheck output made this pretty clear. > >cgf Yes, when I untarred the file with "/bin/tar -jxvf cygwin-inst-20060614.tar.bz2," I found it contained only these two top-level directories: /etc and /usr. It did not contain a /bin directory. --Joe -- 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/
