Hi Paul, The Cygwin list is the appropriate place for followups:
> From: Paul McFerrin > > Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > >> From: Paul McFerrin > >> > >> I thought is was that straight forward. Consider the .bz2 > file under > >> bzip2: > >> bzip2-1.0.3-2.tar.bz2 > >> I did a "bunzip2 -d file..." and ended up with a file > "bunzip2.exe" > >> which is corrupt. Can't do > >> tar -t file... > >> > > > > Perhaps it's time to upgrade your Cygwin installation. :-0 > > > Well I did, without the knowledge that setup would do that. > I'm now running version 1.5.24. I'll stay with that. The > last person (Larry > Hall) mentioned using wget or curl but gave no URL's on where > I might even find the files. Maybe I'm blind, but that seems > to be a secret. It's no secret to those of us using setup.exe ;-). There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, "If you lived here, you'd be home by now." Use setup.exe and you can't get fooled again. -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- 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/
