On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Judy Anderson wrote:
> Emacs is not bothering its little head about cygwin, though; I'm launching it
> outside
> the cygwin environment.
Then that's a completely separate emacs installation. You should be
able to run the Cygwin one by just creating a shortcut to
a shortcut that calls
bash to launch emacs. Thanks for the pointer.
-Original Message-
From: Lee [mailto:ler...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:09 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Strange tar error with --format=ustar: value 4294967295 out of
gid_t range 0..2097
On 9/14/09, Judy Anderson wrote:
.. snip ..
> Except on my usual development machine, where I get the error:
>
> E:\yduJ> c:\cygwin\bin\tar cf foo.tar --format=ustar foo
> /usr/bin/tar: value 4294967295 out of gid_t range 0..2097151
> /usr/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous err
I need to send a collection of files to a Z/OS machine from a windows machine.
When we were on Windows 2000, we just used "pax". But apparently Microsoft has
discontinued pax in Win2003. So we searched for a solution. Cygwin tar SAID
it would produce pax format files, but the Z/OS machine do
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