Greetings, Dave Korn! >>> Windows GUI-based archivers are well known for causing this problem. >> >> To be fair, you should reduce your reference to "WinZIP is known for". >> At the very least, WinRAR and 7-Zip, both won't try to hold your hand in >> this case. >> I don't know about WinACE, though, and I'm not going to check it myself.
> I haven't checked, but would bet WinRAR and 7-Zip don't accurately recreate > the posix permissions when they unpack a *nix tarball. They probably don't > unpack device nodes right either. They can probably get softlinks right but I > haven't tested that either. I doubt that so much. Neither of them is aware of Cygwin specifics. But they don't have EOL issues for sure, as they treating files as binary at all times. > Rather than play guessing games about which gui-based unpackers will do a > good job of unpacking something into a Cygwin environment and have to > repeatedly re-solve the problems they may cause every time someone says "Oh, > well you said not to use WinZip, so I used WinRAR (or whatever) instead", I > just err on the side of caution and simply advise: for unpacking stuff into a > Cygwin environment, always use a Cygwin-aware tool. That's right. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 21.12.2011, <22:47> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
