>>Don't extract things using non-Cygwin tools unless you really know what >>you're doing (or have been told to do so). You can make a real mess doing >>this. I would've used CYGWIN, but, unfortunately, tar didn't work ;)
>>If you're saying by the above that you have c:\cygwin\bin\bunzip2.exe >>and can run it from the shell the same way as you are attempting to run >>'tar', then I would say that you have a bad tar package. Try installing >>it from a different mirror and see if that helps. I haven't really had any problems with anything *but* tar, except maybe apropos. I've been going through a Linux tutorial, and I've hit a snag, since, apparently, you can't install software without tar. I tried installing from a different mirror, but to no avail. I think I'll probably try to uninstall and start from scratch. >>FWIW, 'setup.exe' reports 'tar-1.16.1-1.tar.bz2' as a 696K file. I guess it doesn't really make sense to send the unzipped file, but I was referring to tar-1.16.1-1.tar, which is 2MB. Thanks for your help. -- 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/
